David Means Quotes
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.David Means
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
Garry Marshall -
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
Pardis Sabeti -
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel -
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins -
At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
Tammy Duckworth -
I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
Taran Killam
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
Samantha Isler -
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
Olivier Martinez -
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
Walt Mossberg -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Yoko Ono -
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
Yusuf Hamied -
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King -
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco -
At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
Dalai Lama -
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
Bam Margera
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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.
Chris Gabrieli -
As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.
Claude Nicollier -
I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.
Mahershala Ali -
The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. -
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.
David Means