Jimmy Durante Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison -
Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
G. Willow Wilson -
I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
Rachel Nichols -
If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Kapil Dev -
In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
Nate Berkus -
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
Barton Gellman
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
Lady Gaga -
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
Ina May Gaskin -
I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.
Kat Dennings -
I enjoy money.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.
Zac Brown Band -
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
Jackson Katz
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I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.
Harold Prince -
I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
Ferdinand Foch -
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
P. L. Travers -
I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.
C. S. Lewis -
Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
Wallace Stevens -
Whose secret Presence, through Creation's veins Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains; Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi; and They change and perish all - but He remains;
Omar Khayyam
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What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?
Ann Leckie -
It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
Colm Meaney -
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe -
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco -
And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
Samuel Johnson -
UMBRIAGO!
Jimmy Durante