Billy Collins Quotes
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Ralph G. Neas -
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
Barbara Cook -
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
Zach LaVine -
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher -
Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
Randall L. Stephenson
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham -
If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
Yahya Jammeh -
When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
Zach Wamp -
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
Dana Perino -
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman -
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu -
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
Haley Bennett -
When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
Madhuri Dixit -
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
Daniel Barenboim
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver -
You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
Kurt Elling -
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
David Shields -
I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
P. D. James -
My father said 'When in doubt, castle.'
Kurt Vonnegut -
My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
Billy Collins