John Abbott Quotes
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'John Abbott
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But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill -
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama -
It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
Gail Carriger -
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali -
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
Famke Janssen
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
Laura Dern -
My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron -
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
Fiona Apple -
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
Manuel Puig -
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
Barbara Kruger -
Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
Victoria Strauss -
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Barry Diller -
I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
Dan Harmon
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
Malala Yousafzai -
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi -
Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
Francesca Annis -
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock -
That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.
Alejandro Ghersi -
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott