Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Saffron Burrows -
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
Sam Waterston -
As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
Mandy Moore -
I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
Hansika Motwani
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
Ada Yonath -
I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
Patricia Heaton -
Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
Tariq Anwar -
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Candice Bergen -
I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
Taylor Swift -
When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
Sam Kean
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
Vernon A. Walters -
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
Edmund White -
Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.
Gary Lineker -
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
Abdus Salam -
Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
Samuel Goldwyn
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The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
Edward Coke -
I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
Christina Applegate -
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
Peter Lamborn Wilson -
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
Frances Farmer -
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski