Stars Quotes - Page 18

• Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place

  Michael Medved

  Running, Campaigns, Want

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• I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Actors, Want, Driven

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• The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

  Walt Frazier

  Sports, Teamwork, Communication

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• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Caring, Thinking

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• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Dollars, Debt, Ten

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• In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Moon, Sky

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Heart, Knowledge

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Heart, Men, Long

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• Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

  Ernesto Sabato

  Life, Novelists, Desert

  Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

  Glenda Millard

  Fall, Burning, Tumbling

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• At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

  Diego Maradona

  Country, Team, Player

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• Fame should be left to the film stars.

  Alexander McQueen

  Film, Fame, Should

  "God save McQueen" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

  Jeri Ryan

  Real, Honest, Weaponry

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• The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of  love.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Love, Dream, Sky

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• Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

  Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  Complaining, Spots

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• Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fall, Gaps, Now And Then

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• A circus of stars,
  your dreams a trapeze, faces
  lift like mirrored moons.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Dream, Moon, Circus

  Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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• Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

  David Henry

  Food, Heart, Men

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• If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Study, Creation, Creator

  "What is Life? The Layman's View of Nature". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1949.

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• Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

  Bill Hicks

  Party, Rocks, Government

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• Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

  Bill Hicks

  Children, Rocks, Perfect

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• I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Opera, I Can

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• Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

  Leonard Michaels

  Believe, Ocean, Cat

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• May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

  George Jung

  Blow, Destiny, Wind

  "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.

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• The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

  James Connolly

  People, Republican

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