Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes
The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Jack Keane
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Vanna Bonta
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
Yuri Milner
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
Bart Gordon
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
Dallas Roberts
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
Cara Castronuova
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.
Natalie Martinez
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
Yasmine Al Masri
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
Laetitia Casta
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
FKA twigs
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
Katee Sackhoff
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
Leo Tolstoy
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Poetry can be written only because it has been written.
Wendell Berry
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.
J. C. Ryle
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The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.
Clive James