Mario Cuomo Quotes
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
Barbara Demick -
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
Victor Francis Hess -
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
Nancy Roman -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
Olivier Martinez -
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
Garrett Clayton -
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
Salman Rushdie -
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling -
I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
Frances Beinecke
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach -
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
Karl Urban -
I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai -
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
Barbra Streisand
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We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.
Donald Hall -
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates -
Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
Anna Akhmatova -
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis -
We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.
Mario Cuomo