Maurice Sendak Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
Nate Parker -
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
Van Morrison -
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland -
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
Lara St. John -
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker -
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara De Angelis
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
Nancy Gibbs -
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.
Dana Perino -
I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
Carlene Carter -
I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
R. A. Salvatore -
To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
Ed Weeks
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel McAdams -
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.
Pat Mitchell -
So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.
Lou Gehrig -
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.
Annie Besant -
I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
Marc Jacobs
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What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.
Louise Bourgeois -
We will continue to make a real impact on drivers globally, helping them save time and money while making everyone's daily commute a bit more efficient and fun.
Noam Bardin -
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey -
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
Charles Francis Richter -
In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
Chris Pine -
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
Maurice Sendak