Jane Smiley Quotes
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand -
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
Gail Carson Levine -
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
Edsger Dijkstra -
We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
Carl Lewis
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
R. Kelly -
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards -
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid -
I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
Washed Out -
Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
W. D. Richter -
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I've been engaged a couple times.
Tamron Hall -
I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
Samuel Larsen -
I'm not a violent person.
Manute Bol -
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
Yancy Butler -
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
Paloma Faith -
I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
Salma Hayek
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I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
Jack Ma -
In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
Kacey Musgraves -
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. -
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Brent Scowcroft -
Respect and fear are two different things.
Jane Smiley