Mary Steenburgen Quotes
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.Mary Steenburgen
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy -
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather -
I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
Patrick Whitesell -
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
Valerie Harper -
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
Nadia Comaneci -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Gary Bettman -
Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
Zac Brown Band -
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup -
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
Jaclyn Smith
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Maeve Binchy -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman -
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Nancy Gibbs -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
Rand Beers
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Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
Kim Dae Jung -
I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.
Alison Brie -
Gabrina tenne sempre gli occhi bassi,Perché non ben risposta al vero dassi.
Ludovico Ariosto -
I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?
Rich Mullins -
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
Lee Greenwood -
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
Mary Steenburgen