James Balog Quotes
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.James Balog
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
Quentin Blake -
Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
Dan Webster -
This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
Aaron Klug -
I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
Magic Johnson -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry -
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
Gail Carriger -
There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
Francesco Totti -
I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
Cameron Monaghan -
I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Rahm Emanuel -
I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
Taylor Swift -
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
T.I. -
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance -
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini -
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
Walter O'Brien
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Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.
Margaret Rutherford -
It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.
Corey Stoll -
Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.
Jon Gruden -
Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
Barack Obama -
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
James Balog