Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.Elizabeth McCracken
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
Abby Wambach -
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Olga Korbut -
I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
Yara Shahidi -
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael -
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo Migos -
There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
Adam Cohen
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
Malala Yousafzai -
I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
Lana Del Rey -
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
Wayne Dyer -
Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
Victor Garber -
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Edith Head
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
Orison Swett Marden -
Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 states out there that are laboratories of democracy. Why are we not empowering the states to find solutions to our problems, particularly health care, as opposed to looking to a one-size-fits-all solution from Washington, D.C.? That puzzles even me.
Gary Herbert -
I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
Yolandi Visser -
I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
Lance Henriksen -
Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
Usher
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I am proud to be an African.
Brenda Fassie -
You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.
Brian Krzanich -
I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to do music. But with the album, I did have my first experience with meeting with a producer and us making things from scratch.
Rashard Bradshaw -
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
William Ellery Channing -
You never know how much time you have with someone.
Lisa Jakub -
An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.
Elizabeth McCracken