James R. Thompson Quotes
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust -
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
Naval Ravikant -
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
Edie Brickell -
Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
Laura Benanti -
For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
Ram Charan
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
Olivia Thirlby -
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
Ian Mckellen -
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren -
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
Washed Out -
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
Candice Swanepoel -
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
Carlene Carter -
One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
Taylor Momsen -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz -
Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Kate Brown
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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
Vint Cerf -
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
Samina Baig -
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
Anna Maria Chavez -
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry -
You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.
Joe Klein -
An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.
James R. Thompson