Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.Benjamin Whichcote
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
Nadia Comaneci -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
Ofra Strauss -
They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
Carl Hubbell -
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
Ian Fleming -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
Daniel Boulud -
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
Yoko Ono -
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Quentin Tarantino
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
Vanilla Ice -
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
Rachel Sklar -
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
Dana Priest -
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
Nancy Gibbs -
It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
Lady Gregory -
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
Nas
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
Harlan Ellison -
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
John Milton -
My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
T. C. Boyle -
When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.
Amanda de Cadenet -
Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
Jet Li -
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
Benjamin Whichcote