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
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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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver
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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 -
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
Tea Obreht
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
Dakota Johnson -
My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
Amy Sherald -
Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
Nancy Pelosi -
I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Nature is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon- Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee, Nay-Nature is Heaven.Nature is what we hear, The Bobolink, the Sea- Thunder, the Cricket- Nay,-Nature is Harmony.Nature is what we know But have no art to say, So impotent our wisdom is To Her simplicity.
Emily Dickinson -
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