Jacob K. Javits Quotes
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.Jacob K. Javits
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann -
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 -
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
Larry David -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna -
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs -
I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
Olga Fonda
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
Taylor Lautner -
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
J. K. Simmons -
There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
Samantha Barks -
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds -
We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
Dallas Willard -
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. Edwards Deming
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
Gail Kelly -
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
Gavin Bryars -
Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
Nathan Sawaya -
I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
Fat Joe
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History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
Richard Scott Bakker -
Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
Brock Lesnar -
Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
Jim Nabors -
I play no instruments.
Clive Davis -
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch -
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
Jacob K. Javits