Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
Nathan Fillion -
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Abel Ferrara -
The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
Dan Gable -
I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
Rachel Bloom -
It is better to be likable than to be talented.
Utah Phillips -
We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
Irwin Winkler
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With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
Samantha Harvey -
Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
Karl Marx -
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
Cormac McCarthy -
I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
Edwin Markham -
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Aristotle -
Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.
Brunello Cucinelli -
I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.
Win Butler -
You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.
Dave Ramsey
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Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.
Christian Louboutin -
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.
William Camden -
The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.
Javan -
'Salam aleikum.'
Anthony Burgess