Cynthia Weil Quotes
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.Cynthia Weil
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
Ralph Lauren -
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard -
You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
Patrick Swayze -
There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
Pamela Anderson -
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
Quentin Tarantino
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham -
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
Tana French -
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Ed Markey -
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans -
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister -
I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
Tavi Gevinson
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver -
I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
Gabrielle Giffords -
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
Patrick Dempsey -
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
Jack Kornfield -
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach
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I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.
Martha Wainwright -
Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.
E. J. Hughes -
The men and the women in the CIA, they do their job regardless of who is in the White House. Same for NSA. Same for FBI. These men and women are putting themselves in harm's way. Have to deal with difficult situations.
Will Hurd -
I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
Jennifer McMahon -
'Last Man' is different from anything I've ever seen or done.
Mel Rodriguez -
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
Cynthia Weil