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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863

Topics

Light Shine Window Evil Person Like

I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Good Food Math Operator

I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.

Basketball Thought Loved Professional

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Birthday Me Pressure Remember I Can

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.

Friendship Reading You Find Out

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Good Art Best People Communism Bad

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

Life Music Experience Me Road Human

I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.

School Singing High School High

It's not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry - we are very close. I'm not saying it won't ever happen again but it's best to work with other people. There are no professional boundaries at which to stop when you act with a sibling.

Work Best People World Saying You

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.

Dikembe Mutombo

Time Walk Broken Growing Up Start

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Love God Man People Tide White

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Experience People Me Wealth Done

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Good Peace Quiet Peace And Quiet

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