James L. Brooks Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton -
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria -
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
H. R. McMaster -
You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
Daniel Cormier
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Otto Lilienthal -
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
Nate Powell -
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
Kate Forsyth -
In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
Imelda May -
My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
Katey Sagal -
We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
Bainbridge Colby
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
Natasha Trethewey -
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
Nate Lowman -
I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
Patrick Kane -
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
Malcolm de Chazal -
An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
Jack Canfield -
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
Eddie Campbell
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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
Cenk Uygur -
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. Henry -
I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
Ursula Andress -
I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.
John Hench -
I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
I have a lot of nightmares.
James L. Brooks