Mary Wesley Quotes

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Better

• Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Respect
  • More
  • Bride

• At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Army
  • Injustice

• My mother, actually, is a therapist.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mother
  • Actually
  • Therapist

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Box
  • Lunch

• By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

  

  Carla Korbes
  • She
  • Know
  • Running

• It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • New
  • Regulations
  • Mining

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Perfection
  • Excellence

• I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Weird

• Peace the offspring is of Power.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Power
  • Peace

• What are you doing with a car here in 1860?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Car
  • Doing
  • Here

• Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Science

• In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

  

  John Linder
  • World
  • Country
  • Today

• I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

  

  Peter Guber

• I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

  

  Charles Busch
  • Develop
  • Contract
  • Features

• And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Acid

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

  

  Mary Wesley