Anthony Doerr Quotes

We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day and learn something and talk to people?

Anthony Doerr

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'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.

Jerry Hall

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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

John Hurt

MathematicsSchoolGiftThinkBetter

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

Michael Gove

BelieveThinkDecisionsSecurity

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

Michael Bastian

WorldBetterEveryoneLittleTake

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

HealthYearBodyOldEighteenKeep

We realized that Elite has the potential to really add value to a company like La Perla, due to its relationship to the fashion business, links to music, to entertainment, all of this tends to point more and more to the luxury consumer. The fashion world is one where Italy has clear excellence. I see the potential with it very clearly.

Silvio Scaglia

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Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

Rufus Sewell

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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Mike Tyson

HomeNegativeYouPartyEverything

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Michael Pollan

NatureCultureProgressWilderness

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Louis Farrakhan

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The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.

Janine di Giovanni

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