Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Gary Oldman -
A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
Zach Galifianakis -
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Patrick Stewart -
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
Ed Speleers
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison -
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
Jack Ma -
I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
Osman Rashid -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
Fidel Castro -
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
Mahmoud Abbas -
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler -
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
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I've been a very lucky actor.
Bob Newhart -
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
Jane Asher -
I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
S. E. Hinton -
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir -
Love is the strongest force in the world.
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