Bliss Carman Quotes
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.Bliss Carman
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
Earl Scruggs -
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Nan Fairbrother -
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
Natalie Portman -
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba -
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
Larry Williams -
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Daniel Boone
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
Nas -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Sam Phillips -
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Malin Akerman -
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
Kara Swisher
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
Carl Hagelin -
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons -
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
Camille Paglia -
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus
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The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.
Marcia Gay Harden -
I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.
Ben Quayle -
If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
Angela Duckworth -
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
Sage Stallone -
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman