Jessamyn West Quotes
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.Jessamyn West
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
Ed Bradley -
I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
Jack Kemp -
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
Sam Wyly -
My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
Ian Wright -
There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
Najib Razak
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
Dana Snyder -
My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
Fernando Torres -
When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
No one is ever ordinary.
Tanith Lee -
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
Felix Baumgartner -
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
Rajneesh
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Thank God for product and blusher.
Haley Bennett -
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
L. Frank Baum -
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow -
You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
Chris Terrio -
Stay big in your work and small in your life.
Alber Elbaz -
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
Floyd Abrams
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In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
Brie Larson -
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
Dennis C. Blair -
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton -
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
Eric Alterman -
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jessamyn West