Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
Fareed Zakaria -
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland -
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
Gabriel Basso -
I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
Ina Garten -
For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
Kara Swisher
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Dan Jenkins -
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono -
A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.
Valerie Plame -
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso -
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I just like doing my job.
Faye Marsay
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving -
The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
Samuel Johnson -
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Bertrand Russell -
¿Y para qué debo arrepentirme de lo que he hecho, si no puedo dejar de hacer lo que hago, que es lo que he hecho?
Antonio Porchia -
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
Buffalo Bill
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The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from efforts focused on threat identification and sharing inside and outside of government, to our internal emphasis on developing and retaining new talent and changing the way we operate to evolve with the cyber threat.
James Comey -
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu -
Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.
Luanne Rice -
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it...
Marianne Williamson -
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck