Austin Clarke Quotes
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.Austin Clarke
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
Naveen Jain -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde -
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Adam Carolla -
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
Madeleine Stowe -
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay -
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
Karin Slaughter -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White -
I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
Mads Mikkelsen -
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson -
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My friends know that if they need help, they can come to me.
Chris March -
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
Chrysippus -
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
Alex Lowe -
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Alcaeus -
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
John Redwood -
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
Austin Clarke