Derivada Da Quotes & Sayings

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. — Michael Winslow

To me, what I've always said is that the president [Barack Obama] has set up an awful situation through his deal with Iran, because what his deal with Iran has done is empower them and enrich them. And that's the way ISIS has been created and formed here. ISIS is created and formed because of the abuse that [Bashar] Assad and his Iranian sponsors have rained down on the Sunnis in Syria. — Chris Christie

The personality of man is not an apple that has to be polished, but a banana that has to be peeled. And the reason we remain so far from one another, the reason we neither communicate nor interact in any real way, is that most of us spend our lives in polishing rather than peeling... Almost everything in modern life is devoted to the polishing process, and little to the peeling process. It is the surface personality that we work on - the appearance, the clothes, the manners, the geniality. In short, the salesmanship: We are selling the package, not the product. — Sydney J. Harris

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them. — Josh Fox

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise. — Marilyn Manson

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure. — Augustus

You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes. — Theresa May

Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China. — Gerald Celente

You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it. — Donald Ray Pollock

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason. — Andre Maurois

If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything else disintegrates: our relationships, our work, our faith, and our dreams. We are the only filter between the world and ourselves. The more we doubt the filter, the more we doubt everything, sinking into indifferent apathy. — Jonathan Heston

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. — Anita Desai