Jef Raskin Quotes

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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Need
  • Information

• To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• I need to be able to explain myself in context.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Explain

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Day
  • Value

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Time
  • Think
  • Him

• If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

  

  Kapil Dev
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  • Fun
  • Challenge

• The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
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  • Best
  • Advice

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• I'm flat on the floor, with my head down low, where the sky can't rain on me anymore.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Sky
  • Rain

• In all this I can see but the doom of slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Slavery

• People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • People
  • Sun

• I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

  

  Danny Dyer
  • Good
  • Family
  • Money

• A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

  

  Jef Raskin
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