Barbara Smith Quotes
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
Randall Munroe -
Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
Walton Goggins -
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
Raf Simons -
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond de Goncourt -
As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells -
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer -
By and large my relations with the US were good.
Hans Blix -
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
Garry Shandling -
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Quintilian
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
Valerie Jarrett -
I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
Yolanda Adams -
I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
Zooey Deschanel -
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
Cussing ain't for everybody.
Eric Lynn Wright -
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot -
Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
Rachel Nichols -
People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
Carine Roitfeld -
The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring.
Jaden Smith -
Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.
John Kasich -
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
Barbara Smith