Nathan Hale Quotes
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.Nathan Hale
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
Carles Puigdemont -
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
Rainn Wilson -
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
Daniel Everett -
You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
Daniel Cormier
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Zhang Yimou -
When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
Sam Shepard -
It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
Jaclyn Smith -
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
Nate Lowman -
It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
Gary Carr -
I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
Fiona Apple
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
H. G. Bissinger -
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler -
I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
Carl Forti -
I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.
Emily Ratajkowski -
The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
Brian Setzer Stray Cats -
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
Luke Donald
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
Harmony Korine -
The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something almost every time. That's them being an artist, and you appreciate it more over time.
Chris Stapleton -
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
David Guterson -
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
Jonathan Sacks -
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
Kage Baker -
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.
Nathan Hale