Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing -
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
Bayard Taylor -
If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
J. D. Vance -
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn -
I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
Karen DeCrow -
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Mahavira
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
Rachele Brooke Smith -
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
Walter Murch -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien -
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Gabriel Byrne -
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel -
There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
Naomi Watts
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton -
My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
Pamela Adlon -
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippmann -
Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe -
In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.
Ted Deutch -
I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
Natalia Ginzburg