Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.Kurt Vonnegut
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
Patrick Lencioni -
Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
Gabe Kaplan -
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna -
I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
Carlene Carter -
I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
Adam Ferrara
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
B. F. Skinner -
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Harold Pinter -
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese -
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Octavio Paz -
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Bayard Taylor
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
Vera Wang -
Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
Barbara Broccoli -
It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
Edmund S. Muskie -
'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
Laura Mvula -
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
Lee Grant -
I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.
Marg Helgenberger -
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
Oscar Wilde -
All scientific work is incomplete – whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
Austin Bradford Hill -
Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.
Karen Salmansohn -
This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.
Kurt Vonnegut