Rachel Swirsky Quotes
Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.Rachel Swirsky
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
Nawal El Saadawi -
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde -
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
Natalie Massenet -
If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie -
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Karl Rove
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
Vicky McClure -
I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
T. J. Perkins -
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Hari Kunzru -
I'm really obsessed with the past.
Fisher Stevens -
In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
Victoria Moran
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
K. D. Lang -
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos -
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas -
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang -
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells -
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The past is only the future with the lights on
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
Ban Ki-moon -
I am fine battling lions, tigers, snakes, bulls, even hippopotamuses, but not lizards.
Nia Sharma -
What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.
Adam Draper -
His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
Fernando Pessoa -
Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
Rachel Swirsky