Charles M. Blow Quotes
America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.Charles M. Blow
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
Haley Bennett -
I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
Laura Benanti -
I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
R. Kelly -
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin -
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
Famke Janssen -
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke -
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
Aaron Ciechanover -
My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
La'Porsha Renae -
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David -
I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
Ted Yoho
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci -
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
Sally Ride -
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin -
Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender -
Writers are so important.
Adam Driver -
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Luis von Ahn -
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s:...
Alan Greenspan -
It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
Christo -
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
Twyla Tharp -
America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
Charles M. Blow