Joan Didion Quotes
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
Ed Begley, Jr. -
My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
Larry Page -
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
Nancy Gibbs -
The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
Sam Brownback -
Craft is part of the creative process.
Gavin Bryars -
In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
Nadia Comaneci -
If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.
Kangana Ranaut -
Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
Natascha McElhone -
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
Gary Coleman -
Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
Dan Farmer -
I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.
Patrick Rothfuss -
All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.
Laurence Fishburne -
All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
Morgan Freeman -
There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
Seneca the Younger -
If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and view the United States and our way of life as a threat to him, then we're gonna have bigger problems than just cyber hacking.
Barack Obama -
I can't even plan tomorrow.
Ricki Lake -
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
Joan Didion