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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Sam Kinison -
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
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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 -
I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
Ed Koch -
London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
Felicity Jones -
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon -
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
Mary Doria Russell -
I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.
Kevin Brownlow -
Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
Bill Pullman -
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