Jim Costa Quotes
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.Jim Costa
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld -
I am not an American; I am the American.
Val Kilmer -
I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling -
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
Floyd Skloot -
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
Florence Nightingale -
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card -
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
Zac Brown Band -
I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
Zac Goldsmith -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
Dale Earnhardt -
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
J. G. Ballard -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
Usain Bolt -
A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
Vicky Hartzler -
Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce -
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Abraham Lincoln -
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Barry Zito -
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.
Ariel Rechtshaid -
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
Jim Costa