James Bryant Conant Quotes
Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things happened - in 15 minutes, the world changed.
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There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
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I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
