Craig Brown Quotes
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.Craig Brown
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
I. M. Pei -
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul -
All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell -
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Sally Schneider
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Omar N. Bradley -
I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
Candice Glover -
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
Daniel Dae Kim -
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
Pankaj Mishra -
I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
Alfred North Whitehead
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It's safe to say headphones is a good business.
DJ Khaled -
I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes -
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
Drew Barrymore -
I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
Elisha Cuthbert -
When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.
Payal Kadakia -
I'm an inner city man, born and bred.
Liam Cunningham
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Mine has been a pretty strange path.
Steve Carr -
'Tis only from the selfishness and confin'd generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.
David Hume -
Trees are your best antiques.
Alexander Smith -
There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.
Sarah Dessen -
I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
Damian Lewis -
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
Craig Brown