Jessamyn West Quotes
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.Jessamyn West
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
Rachel Dratch -
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
Patrick M. Byrne -
I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
Randee Heller -
It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
Ed Koch -
Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
Nas
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian -
When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
Natasha Lyonne -
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett -
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett -
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Os Guinness -
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher -
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
Natalie Portman
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I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
Kathryn Stockett -
I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.
Kodi Smit-McPhee -
Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
Alveda King -
You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.
David O. Russell -
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West