Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
Danica McKellar -
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Sally Hawkins -
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
Harold Prince -
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
T Bone Burnett -
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
Kate Beckinsale -
I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
Malorie Blackman -
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
Hans Kung -
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
Jackie Collins
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore -
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker -
Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
Karl G. Maeser -
There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
Valerie Plame -
When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
Natasha Leggero
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
Washington Allston -
The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.
Lisa Lampanelli -
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the ride
Sigmund Freud -
When I go down to Comic-Con in San Diego, people remember me for some of the strangest things. They go on and on about it, and I reminisce about it, and it's great fun. It's interesting to see what people remember me for.
Ray Wise -
I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.
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