Arthur Balfour Quotes
Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
Mahershala Ali
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
Dan Carter
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
Rachel Zoe
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau
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I don't care about revenues.
Jack Ma
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
Rachel Cusk
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Taylor Swift
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
Octavia Spencer
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
Om Puri
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
Jack Scalia
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
Tamala Jones
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Irina Shayk
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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
Douglas Tompkins
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
Nadine Labaki
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Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.
Bill Clinton
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
Pat Robertson
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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
Anupam Kher
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
Arthur Balfour