Burt Shavitz Quotes
I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.Burt Shavitz
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany -
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie -
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
Hannah Murray -
There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
Laura Marano -
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
Adam Beach -
I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
Barbara Lynn -
I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
Padgett Powell -
I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
Patrick Wang -
I've never really fit in anywhere.
Taylor Momsen
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It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
Rachel Nichols -
There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
Ingmar Bergman -
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
Manal al-Sharif -
My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.
Victor Pinchuk -
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
Isaac D'Israeli -
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Maybe it wasn’t anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.
Iain Banks -
I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau -
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
Dries van Noten -
I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.
John Benjamin Hickey -
The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Peter Thiel -
I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.
Burt Shavitz