Antonio Machado Quotes
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.Antonio Machado
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Uma Thurman -
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig -
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong -
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel Castro -
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan -
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
Pat Robertson -
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
Hamish Bowles -
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
Wallace Shawn -
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
Waris Ahluwalia
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden -
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver -
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca -
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
Ted Nugent
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
Zoe Lofgren -
The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.
Douglas Alexander -
When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.
Cindy Gallop -
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison -
My age doesn't matter. I'm a good pitcher. Once I'm on my game, I can't fail.
Felix Hernandez -
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
Antonio Machado