Bram Cohen Quotes
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi -
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton -
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
Patrick Stewart -
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
Abraham Polonsky -
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan -
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
L. Neil Smith
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
Vikram Seth -
You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
Page McConnell -
We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Composition has almost always been solitary.
Wendy Carlos -
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
Fra Angelico -
Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
Daniel Barber
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Dan Savage -
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
Maajid Nawaz -
I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
J. D. Souther -
'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
Eddi Reader -
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
Oscar Pistorius
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South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.
Nikki Haley -
Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.
Peggy Fleming -
I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.
Bristol Palin -
If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vincent Van Gogh -
When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.
Mariella Frostrup -
Give and ye shall receive.
Bram Cohen