Curtis Sliwa Quotes
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
Laura Marling -
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama -
Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
Jack Kevorkian
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
Oksana Baiul -
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
Beck -
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
Rachel Kushner -
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
Ira Sachs
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
Zack Wheat -
A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
Tamsin Greig -
First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
Lady Gaga
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
Hans Frank -
So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear.
Ben Aaronovitch -
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
Corin Nemec -
Actually, when I'm not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural - I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.
Eva Green -
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
Ramakrishna -
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
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