Fanny Burney Quotes
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.Fanny Burney
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
Earl Campbell -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
Jacki Weaver -
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
Barbara Kruger -
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro -
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
Jack Youngblood
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
Vincent Cassel -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
Zong Qinghou -
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
Venus Williams -
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
Dan Harmon -
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
Jack Keane -
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
N. Scott Momaday -
I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
Madchen Amick -
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
Nathaniel Branden -
Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.
Daniel Bryan -
I had actually tested first with 'Young and Restless' for the role of Daisy. It came down to three of us, but I didn't book that job. A couple of weeks later, I was told that I had an audition for 'B&B.' I did two auditions, and they booked me. It was a short process, which I greatly appreciated!
Kim Matula -
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
Willie Stargell -
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
Fanny Burney