Lisa Stansfield Quotes
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C. L. R. James -
Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
Said Nursi -
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund -
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
Abbie Cornish -
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
Walter Russell Mead -
I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
Jackie DeShannon -
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia -
I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
Zosia Mamet -
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Caleb Deschanel
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I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
Daniel Craig -
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Sam Shepard -
If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
Galveston Giant -
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
Olympia Snowe -
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
J. Michael Straczynski -
The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
Adam Cohen
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
Tim Ferriss -
This time, his gaze fixed on her and stayed. The wind blew, whipping her skirts about her ankles, as if he'd called up a gale with the intensity of his stare.
Courtney Milan -
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova -
People talk about the All Woman video to this day.
Lisa Stansfield