Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
Ed Harris -
Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
Harley Viera-Newton -
Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
Tahar Rahim -
I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
Randall Park -
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson -
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
M. J. Rose -
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
Karl Jaspers -
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis -
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
Pat Summerall -
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
Wendy Davis
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis -
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian -
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
W. Edwards Deming -
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison -
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
Barry Sanders -
I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
Eddie Murphy
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K. D. Lang -
My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar -
I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
Mal Peet -
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
Nathan Wolfe -
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
Bob Goff -
I do think that all of us think in poems.
Naomi Shihab Nye