Dickey Betts Quotes
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
Najib Razak -
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund Hillary -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham -
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder -
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
Kate Thompson -
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
Ira Glass -
I'm not superstitious.
Bai Ling -
Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
Ted Deutch -
I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
Orson Welles -
Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.
Narendra Modi -
Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.
Brian Wilson
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That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
Luc Montagnier -
I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
David MacKenzie -
Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.
Ana Navarro -
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
Brian Ferneyhough -
In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
January Jones -
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
Christina Rossetti
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I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
Malachy McCourt -
I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
Mike Newell -
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
Taylor Swift -
I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
Dickey Betts