Brenda Ueland Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Harlan Coben -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
Tadashi Yanai -
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
Kate Atkinson -
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Aaron Hill -
You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
Larry Brown
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
Kate Beckinsale -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos -
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan -
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
Kate Adie -
I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
Gary Johnson -
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
Cameron Russell
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The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.
Jack Welch -
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
Elbert Hubbard -
I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
David LaChapelle -
We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of great TV creators, and it can sprout out into a big tree.
O. T. Fagbenle -
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Brenda Ueland