Brian Wilson Quotes
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
Taron Egerton -
As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
Maisie Williams -
I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
Paloma Elsesser -
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
E. L. James
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
Damian Lewis -
I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.
Karl Pilkington -
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
Gail Collins -
I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
Vin Scully -
Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
Pat Meehan -
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
Aaron Sorkin
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I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.
M. K. Hobson -
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids, and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon -
It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
Elizabeth A. Sherman
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I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive.
Lois Capps -
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
Ben Bernanke -
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
Brian Wilson