John Edgar Wideman Quotes
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
Lady Gaga -
With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
Candice Olson -
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
Aaron Klug -
There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
Hansika Motwani -
You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
Tammy Duckworth -
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Walter Isaacson -
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Yayoi Kusama -
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby -
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
Zaha Hadid
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I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.
Yves Behar -
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
Walter Kaufmann -
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
Zola Jesus -
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov -
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde -
In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
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The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
Jerry Della Femina -
The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.
Sutton Foster -
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.
Barack Obama -
My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.
Frankie Cosmos -
Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.
John Edgar Wideman