Gene Roddenberry Quotes
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
Daniel Bryan -
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra Modi -
I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
Gary Coleman -
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell -
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
Candace Parker -
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
Karen Mills
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln -
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn -
You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
Rachel Keller -
I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
Iris Apfel -
Scotland is the Canada of England!
Rainn Wilson -
My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
Olivier Theyskens
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
Walter Dean Myers -
I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.
Patrick Kane -
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
Jack Kingston -
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson -
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
Samuel Johnson -
Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
C. S. Lewis
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
Dan Coats -
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
Jess Walter -
There are many people of color who are very talented.
James D. Watson -
I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.
Martha Stewart -
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
John Philip Sousa -
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
Gene Roddenberry