Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.Marguerite Yourcenar
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
M. J. Rose -
If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
Daniel Ek -
I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
Rachel Maddow -
I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
Tadanobu Asano
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells -
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
Patricia Velasquez -
I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
Orison Swett Marden -
There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
J. R. Moehringer -
We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
L.A. Reid -
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
Samuel Beckett -
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
Charles Spurgeon -
Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com
Eric Clapton Cream -
The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.
Gene Klein Kiss
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
Natasha Lyonne -
All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.
J. James Exon -
Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.
Marguerite Yourcenar