Rod Stewart Quotes
If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is too violent right now.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.
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That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
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Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
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I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.
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If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
