James Tobin Quotes

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
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  • Song
  • Myself

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Season
  • Minds
  • Resources

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
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  • Country
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• Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • World
  • Batman
  • Before

• I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Want
  • Living

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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  • Believe
  • Game

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Little

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Important
  • Why

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
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  • Construction
  • Glass

• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
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  • Want
  • Achieving

• The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • College

• When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Career
  • Door
  • Tragedy

• Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • Help
  • Freedom

• Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

  

  Eli Roth
  • School
  • High
  • Hate

• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Life

• I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

  

  Matt Frewer
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  • School
  • High

• At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.

  

  James Tobin
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