Bill Dedman Quotes
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.Bill Dedman
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena -
Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
Ma Jun -
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga -
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
Jack Keane -
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson -
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine -
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens -
I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
Gail Simmons -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson -
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal -
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 -
As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan -
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
Taya Kyle -
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
Ada Lovelace
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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
Jack McDevitt -
There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
Arne Glimcher -
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close -
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
Bill Dedman