Marion Milner Quotes
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder -
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Callum Keith Rennie -
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
Ramez Naam -
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee -
Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger -
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey -
I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
Nate Berkus
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe -
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
M. Scott Peck -
My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."
Marianne Williamson -
She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
Jennifer Donnelly -
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Marion Milner