Armando Iannucci Quotes
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
Irving Kirsch -
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
Laura Innes -
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
S. E. Hinton -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
Dana Priest
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
Paris Hilton -
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.
Sam Shepard -
The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war there when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator.
Barack Obama -
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
Orson Scott Card -
There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.
Kevin Rudd
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What happened to Riggs?
Kevin Smith -
Natural law is not applicable to the unseen world behind the symbols, because it is unadapted to anything except symbols, and its perfection is a perfection of symbolic linkage. You cannot apply such a scheme to the parts of our personality which are not measurable by symbols any more than you can extract the square root of a sonnet.
Arthur Eddington -
The thinking man must … oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. True manhood is too precious a spiritual good for us to surrender any part of it to thoughtlessness.
Albert Schweitzer -
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry -
Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don't feel in the States.
Alexander Skarsgard -
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
Frederick Wiseman
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Desolate-Life is so dreary and desolate-Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle,Yet with itself every soul standeth single,Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-Holding and having its brief exultation-Making its lonesome and low lamentation-Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.
Alice Cary -
Adam will provide an immediate physical presence as a strong, power forward-type player, who has the ability to make an immediate impact in our program.
Brad Soderberg -
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
Ezra Pound -
If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.
Alice Dreger -
I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
Armando Iannucci