John Battelle Quotes
I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.John Battelle
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery -
I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
Pat Summitt -
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom -
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
E. W. Howe -
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner -
I love books.
Gail Porter -
I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
Victoria Justice -
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
Walid Jumblatt -
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
Hallie Ephron
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
Venus Williams -
We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
Abby Wambach -
Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
Victoria Justice -
The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
Becky Lynch -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch -
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Hal Sparks -
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred Rogers -
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
Bill Maher -
I believe the most interesting thing to look at in the world is the human face, so that is why I tend to be a little closer to human faces than maybe other directors will be.
David Slade -
I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.
John Battelle