Anthony Burgess Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
It takes madness to find out madness.
Lady Gregory -
We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
Frances Beinecke -
There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
Zoe Saldana -
The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
Gabby Douglas -
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
Patricia Richardson
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
Nafisa Joseph -
I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
Frances McDormand -
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people and drink. Jump behind the wheel like it was still legal!
Eminem -
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon -
I fought against the bottle but I had to do it drunk
Leonard Cohen
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I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.
Alice Ripley -
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
Jaromir Jagr -
Being an online platform, we ran into challenges with Cuba's lack of Internet accessibility. We were able to work around that by creating a program unique to Cuba where many local hosts are working with hosting partners who have Internet access and can help them manage their Airbnb requests and bookings.
Belinda Johnson -
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
Jeremy Brett -
There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
Ella Woodward -
Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
Christopher Eccleston
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
Lauren Graham -
Actually since the Convention I have gotten so many letters that I have tried to answer but every letter said they thought this decision, not to accept the compromise, was so important. There wasn't one letter I have gotten so far that said we should have accepted the compromise - not one.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
Evan Esar -
The Antipods…were always ready to burst.
Anthony Burgess