John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
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• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
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• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
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• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
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• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
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• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
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• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
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• I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
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• The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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  • Divorce

• I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
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• America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

  

  James Frey
  • America
  • Culture
  • Religious

• I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • People
  • Live

• If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life

• I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Competition

• I have always been more relaxed around comedy.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Comedy

• In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.

  

  John Burnham Schwartz
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