Brad Holland Quotes
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'Brad Holland
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen -
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
Ramez Naam -
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad -
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Famke Janssen -
The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
Tamara Tunie
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner -
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney -
Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
Ilan Stavans -
I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
Taye Diggs -
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
Ted Sarandos
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Salman Khan -
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
Taylor Hackford -
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Raj Kapoor -
I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
Sally Phillips -
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.
Anthony Zerbe -
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
Donatella Versace -
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
Sting The Police -
I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy.
Pepe Eliaschev -
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
Brad Holland