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 -
A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
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
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I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.
Virgil van Dijk -
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
Yusuf Hamied -
A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
Floyd Skloot -
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
Daphne Zuniga -
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