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I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so… — Barbara Hershey
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us. — Samuel L. Jackson
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian… — Edmund Burke
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not… — Paul Auster
I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation. — Maureen Lipman
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. — Roger Rosenblatt
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. — F. R. Leavis
Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant,… — Calista Flockhart
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the… — Lee Kuan Yew
Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you… — Michael Nesmith
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. — John Patrick Shanley
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which… — Stephen Bayley
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the… — Jay Chiat
The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in… — Edward T. Hall
Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for… — Larry Kramer
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. — Daniel Dennett
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so… — Lester Bangs
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of… — Terry Eagleton
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. — Paul de Man
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay… — Harry Enfield
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be… — Hugo Ball
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that… — Elisabeth Shue
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. — Arthur Keith

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