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 -
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 -
Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Some people don't understand what our team is all about. We're more for assistance for the coroner who can't handle the amount of deaths
John Callahan -
We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
Tara Strong -
I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.
Andrew Zimmern -
France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?
Francois Hollande -
Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.
John Edgar Wideman