Mary Douglas Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood -
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
Laura Moser -
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma -
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart -
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Nate Silver -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
Nancy Kress -
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount -
I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
Kate Hudson -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville
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I believe we're the party of small business.
Ed Gillespie -
I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
Ralph Fiennes -
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
Zane Grey -
Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
Jackie Cooper -
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
Zig Ziglar
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
Nancy Reagan -
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin -
I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.
Andy Warhol -
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
John McEnroe -
When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.
Seth Lloyd -
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
Mary Douglas