Anthony Trollope Quotes

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

Anthony Trollope

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• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
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• My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Truth is the best defense.

  

  Ward Churchill
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• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
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• Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

  

  Patanjali
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• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• The true art of memory is the art of attention.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

  

  Jerry Lewis

• If someone asks me to play myself, I've got problems. There's more pain involved.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
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• Some people in the industry feel TV actors can't do anything else.

  

  Bill Macy
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• God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

  

  Jim Elliot
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• If we didn't have Net neutrality, carriers could do things like penalize companies that use a lot of bandwidth or create high-speed lanes and charge Internet companies extra fees to send their stuff over them. That would give an advantage to big companies and make life harder for startups.

  

  Daniel Lyons
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• Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

  

  Anthony Trollope