Duke Ellington Quotes
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
Dana Rohrabacher -
The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams -
I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
Katey Sagal -
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
Ian Thorpe -
I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
Cameron Mackintosh -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
Dana Stabenow -
I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
Wayne Rooney -
My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
Natalie Dormer -
If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
Gary Bauer
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel Castro -
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose -
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
Dana Fox -
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman -
I don't have any regrets at all.
Carlene Carter -
Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
Rachel Weisz
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I only make movies I want to go see.
Jerry Bruckheimer -
Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.
Bernard-Henri Levy -
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bill -
I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.
Catherine Hardwicke -
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
Duke Ellington