Benjamin Britten Quotes
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke -
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
Nas -
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale -
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
Irving Babbitt -
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
J. D. Vance -
Life started getting good when I started making money.
Balthazar Getty
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
Wavy Gravy -
My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
Halston Sage -
Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
Harold Hamm -
It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
Illeana Douglas -
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
Viktor Orban
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I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
Sally Yates -
I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
Venus Williams -
I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
Rainn Wilson -
AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
Ice T -
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. King -
Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
James Daly -
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright -
'Eh, Manuel, and will you re-model the world?' 'Who knows?' says Manuel, in the high pride of his youth. 'At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.'
James Branch Cabell -
The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
The model of a composer.
Benjamin Britten