Cornelia Funke Quotes
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann -
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White -
I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
Rahul Dravid -
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge -
I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
Garret Dillahunt
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
Park Geun-hye -
My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
R. Kelly -
I was bitten by an octopus.
Ted Cruz -
Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
Jack Warner -
I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
Ram Charan -
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl T. Rowan
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
Ann Coulter -
If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.
Derek Magyar -
I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.
Christian Louboutin -
Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.
Cory Gardner -
When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
Christina Hendricks
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
Padma Lakshmi -
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
William Butler Yeats -
In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
Eileen Pollack -
Yes, I always imagined living in other places.
Cornelia Funke