Walker Evans Quotes
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
Zach Galifianakis -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman -
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
Olivia Colman -
I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
Ian Millar -
I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
Oliver Sim The xx -
There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
Wayne Dyer -
Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
Naveen Jain -
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
Jack Kevorkian -
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson -
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba -
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
Ian Fleming -
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
Damien Chazelle
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Aaliyah -
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.
Noah Levine -
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
Walker Evans