J. B. Priestley Quotes
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.
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I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
