Ben Elton Quotes
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
BeBe Winans -
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
Naval Ravikant -
When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
Maika Monroe -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
Oscar de la Renta -
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady Gaga -
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent -
If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
Jack Ma -
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma -
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne -
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Jack Kemp
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
Park Geun-hye -
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger -
Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
Tadashi Shoji -
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
Daniel Boulud -
We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
Xavier Becerra -
What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
Halle Berry
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I don't think about competition. I am definitely attracted to not just playing a regular character - I don't know there's any such thing as "regular. In American Crime, I get to play a runaway who's living with her pimp in North Carolina and she's a prostitute, but she's a victim of human trafficking because she's under 18. I like those roles. That's what I wanted; I wanted to play someone that was a challenge.
Ana Mulvoy-Ten -
I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.
Emmitt Smith -
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. National Socialism, but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
Martin Heidegger -
Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
Mark Knopfler Dire Straits -
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
Ben Elton