Antisthenes Quotes
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.Antisthenes
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson -
I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph -
There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
Randy Houser -
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
Dan Phillips -
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
Mamie Gummer -
It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard -
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman -
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
Harry Browne -
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek -
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
Venus Williams
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
Salma Hayek -
I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
Rachelle Lefevre -
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg -
I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
Danica McKellar -
I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
Jackie Evancho -
I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
Rachel Stevens
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
David Antin -
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm Emanuel -
I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
Ion Tiriac -
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
Saint Augustine -
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Mallory Ortberg -
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
Antisthenes