Jim Lehrer Quotes
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It takes madness to find out madness.
Lady Gregory -
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little -
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan -
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
Edgardo Osorio -
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo -
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
Ornette Coleman -
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Harrison Birtwistle -
What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
Kate Upton -
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Naomi Klein
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan -
The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
Viktor Orban -
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Laura Prepon -
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler -
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln -
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
Chief Joseph -
I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.
Heidi Hammel -
Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
Kalpana Chawla -
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
Jim Lehrer