Donald Hall Quotes

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

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• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Thought

• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Artists

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Anger
  • Ice

• I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Same
  • View

• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Yourself
  • Mirror
  • Choice

• I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

  

  Karen Black
  • Books
  • Keep
  • Some

• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Relationships
  • Personal

• Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they'll be okay with it. Third time, they're going to say, 'This is a complete waste of time. I'm going away.'

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• At risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.

  

  Frantz Fanon
  • Black
  • Risk

• The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Fruit

• No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Night

• I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

  

  Kevin James
  • Guy
  • Sports
  • Boy

• When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Boy
  • Door