Benjamin E. Mays Quotes
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
Carice van Houten -
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Jack Keane -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
Ursula Burns -
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle -
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
Pardis Sabeti -
I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
Zach Galifianakis -
People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
Lata Mangeshkar
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I've been a lucky boy.
Dan Stevens -
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Rand Paul -
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick -
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson -
When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Lance Loud
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Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy -
I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
Edie Falco -
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken -
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
Benjamin E. Mays