Dan Simmons Quotes
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.Dan Simmons
Quotes to Explore
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
Karolyn Grimes -
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale -
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
Rachael Harris -
Good comedy is ageless.
Ted Levine -
I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
Eddie Trunk -
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
Banks
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine -
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
Banks -
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
Imelda May -
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin -
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
Laura Lang
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
Patrick Dempsey -
I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
Sam Worthington -
I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
Utkarsh Ambudkar -
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof -
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach -
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
Gary Bauer
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My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.
Fred Wilson -
I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
Emmanuelle Seigner -
My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.
Miley Cyrus -
You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass.
Valentino Rossi -
There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.
Claire Bloom -
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
Dan Simmons