Jay Parini Quotes
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.Jay Parini
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
Sadie Jones -
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
Warren Rudman -
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
Dalton McGuinty -
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
Flip Wilson -
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith -
Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
Zaha Hadid -
I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
Samantha Bond -
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Laura Wilkinson -
Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
Laura Ingraham -
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
Edie McClurg -
I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
Oscar de la Renta -
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
Vicente Fox -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon -
Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
Tali Lennox -
When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
Lady Gaga
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
Dak Prescott -
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
Ida Lupino -
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade -
People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.
Zachary Quinto -
When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.
Bob Parsons -
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
Jay Parini