Iris Murdoch Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
Yves Behar -
Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
Victoria Justice -
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
Oscar Wilde -
I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
Earl Weaver -
Leadership means setting a moral tone.
J. B. Pritzker -
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
Nana Mouskouri
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban -
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine -
I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
Nate Holland -
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
Yara Shahidi -
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway -
I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion -
The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
Tammy Duckworth -
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
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People like passion in politics.
Ed Gillespie -
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
Oriana Fallaci -
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
Oliver Tambo -
Some day I’m going to climb Everest.
Edmund Hillary -
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
Loudon Wainwright III -
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch