Dana Priest Quotes
As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.Dana Priest
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Ed Sheeran
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
Victoria Billings -
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Jack Kerouac -
When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
Iain Duncan Smith -
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Langston Hughes -
If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
Gabe Newell -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
Fiona Shaw
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People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.
will.i.am -
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali -
As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
Dana Priest