Randall Munroe Quotes
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.Randall Munroe
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
Zooey Deschanel -
Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams -
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
Kailash Satyarthi -
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton -
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
Naguib Mahfouz -
If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
Victoria Osteen -
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole -
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Fay Godwin -
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Manish Dayal -
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
G. Willow Wilson -
More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
Daniel Barenboim -
When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
T. J. Miller
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound -
'Liv and Maddie' didn't start out as a twin show. I actually played a different character in the beginning, and it was neither of the twins.
Dove Cameron -
A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.
Dion -
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
Randall Munroe