Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie -
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
Babasaheb -
A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan -
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow -
The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
Hannah Kearney -
I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
Yani Tseng -
I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
Rachele Brooke Smith -
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
Zayn Malik One Direction
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
Zac Brown Band -
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
Carice van Houten -
I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
Nadia Comaneci -
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz -
I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.
Johnny Mathis -
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams -
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
B. B. King -
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
Jai Courtney -
All children have creative power.
Brenda Ueland