Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.Elizabeth McCracken
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth -
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke -
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
Wayne Allard -
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
Karen Gillan -
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Hans Blix
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris -
The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
Jack McBrayer -
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma -
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Sam Kinison
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
Felicity Jones -
Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
Patricia Norris -
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
Yelawolf -
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
Omari Hardwick -
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
Eddie Trunk -
Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
Fabiola Gianotti
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Cuando me conformo con nada es cuando me conformo de todo.
Antonio Porchia -
I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
Adam Schlesinger -
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp -
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
Donna Reed -
Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
Thomas Sowell -
My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
Elizabeth McCracken