Jane Jacobs Quotes
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Jack Nicholson -
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
Nancy Gibbs -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
Ednita Nazario -
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube -
I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
Warren Spector -
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
J. M. Coetzee -
If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
Yohan Blake -
All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
Malcolm Turnbull -
I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
Tamsin Egerton
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
Daniel Barenboim -
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
Marcus Aurelius -
There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
Albert Schweitzer -
There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.
Leonid Hurwicz -
I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
Mary Gaitskill
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As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.
Walter Keane -
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
Bill Parcells -
I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.
Mila Kunis -
Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too much for him. If a car came to close or made the smallest mistake with the rules of the road he shouted, "blasted woman driver", to which my mother was often able to say, with truth, "Funny thing, she's dressed as a man."
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire -
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
Jane Jacobs