Anthony Trollope Quotes
An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.Anthony Trollope
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
Ted Cruz -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass -
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen -
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
Taylor Swift -
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert -
I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
Magda Apanowicz -
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy -
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal -
While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
Taylor Sheridan -
Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer -
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
Yitzhak Navon -
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi -
I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Ce que, finalement, je sais de plus sûr sur la morale et les obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois.
Albert Camus -
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
Tacitus -
An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
Anthony Trollope