Jo Stafford Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
I would like to see America some day.
Hanoi Hannah -
I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
Aaron Peirsol
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
Pamela Sue Martin -
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
Daniel Clowes
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
Gardner Dozois -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
Barry Ritholtz -
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 go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
Wale -
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
Valerie Jarrett
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
Brown Campbell -
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
Ursus Wehrli -
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.
Debbie Stabenow -
Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
Gavin Newsom -
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass -
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
Jo Stafford