Chirlane McCray Quotes
I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.Chirlane McCray
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Walther Bothe -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
Manolo Blahnik -
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
Gabrielle Union
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman -
Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
Sam Kean -
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
R. Kelly -
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden -
What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
Rahul Dravid -
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
N. Scott Momaday
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
Gary Johnson -
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine Albright -
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
N. T. Wright
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
Dan O'Brien -
The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
Van Morrison -
Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
Jeff Bridges -
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
Eric Balfour -
I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.
Chirlane McCray