Marianne Faithfull Quotes
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.Marianne Faithfull
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We continue to be bullish on China.
Carlos Ghosn -
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
Yitzhak Shamir -
If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
Dan Rather
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall -
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell -
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand -
When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
Rachel Nichols -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner -
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
Ian MacKaye
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan -
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
Edan Lepucki -
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Kate Smith -
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
Harry Browne -
I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
Zack Greinke -
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.
Verne Troyer -
: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
Larry Wall -
I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.
Tracy Lawrence -
People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Ziad Abdelnour -
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
Marianne Faithfull