Anthony Trollope Quotes

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

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• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • God
  • College
  • Eyes

• I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • You
  • Look
  • Lose

• I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Man
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Show
  • Product
  • Strive

• Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Matter
  • Police
  • Nothing

• I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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  • Road
  • Silence

• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Gangsta

• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Decision
  • Advice

• I'm OK: I don't need money.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Money
  • Need
  • OK

• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Energy
  • Achievement
  • Nation

• I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Being

• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Fall
  • Powerful

• In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Nature
  • Death

• We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Country
  • America
  • Struggle

• If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

  

  Andrzej Kolikowski
  • Now
  • Who
  • When

• He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

  

  Aristotle
  • Death
  • Brave
  • Fearless

• Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ring
  • Manner
  • Relatives

• Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Consideration

• We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

  

  Anthony Trollope
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