Ian St. John Quotes
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
I grew up on films.
Sam Rockwell -
I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
Pat Sajak -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I see myself as a story teller.
E. L. James -
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
Orhan Pamuk -
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel -
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
H. Rap Brown -
The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
Aaron Yoo -
I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
Valeria Mazza -
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
Jack Bruce Cream -
If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
Kapil Sibal -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver -
I'm a real girly-girl.
Olivia Culpo -
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
Dana Goodyear -
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
Ursula Burns -
I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!
Ian St. John