Elliott Smith Quotes
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn -
Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
Orhan Pamuk -
I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
Cameron Monaghan -
In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
Iqbal Quadir -
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
Carly Fiorina -
I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
Rachel Dratch
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
Adam Davidson -
We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi -
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid -
During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
Usain Bolt -
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
Nat Friedman
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
Vanessa Kerry -
We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
Ville Valo HIM -
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
Tara Strong -
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
Nancy Gibbs -
I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.
Rachel Roy
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I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'
Demetri Martin -
Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking.
Markus Persson -
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
William Gibson -
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
David Goodstein -
I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
Elliott Smith