Anthony Trollope Quotes
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
Laura Schlessinger
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
Caitriona Balfe
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
Halle Berry
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
Beck
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I don't like to talk about myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
Abraham Lincoln
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I like guys who drive trucks.
Inga Cadranel
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
Damian Loeb
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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
Ophelia Lovibond
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
Maya Angelou
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The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being
Daria Halprin
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Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.
Phil Crane
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
Laura Linney
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope