Douglas Tompkins Quotes
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
Mandy Patinkin -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
Ted Danson -
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons -
Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar -
The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
Dana Brunetti
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
Venus Williams -
I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
Yael Stone -
I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
Laura Carmichael -
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
Paloma Faith
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley -
We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
Zac Brown Band -
The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
Aaliyah -
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
Wendy Kopp -
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra
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I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
Joe Montana -
The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.
George Will -
The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.
Ben Shneiderman -
What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.
Erik Brynjolfsson -
When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
Vince Staples -
Look at how fast technology is developing.
Douglas Tompkins