John Irving Quotes
I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.John Irving
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
Barney Ross -
I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
Victoria Azarenka -
That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
Patrick Kane -
I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
Valerie Jarrett -
I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
Ed Harris -
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
Kaskade -
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold -
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
M. Ward -
There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
Sam Smith -
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
Sam Elliott -
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
Kate Bush
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I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.
Barbara Park -
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
Yvonne Strahovski -
No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
Orville Wright -
If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Orison Swett Marden -
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
Ice T
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Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.
Jose Garces -
Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
Antonio Porchia -
We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.
David R. Brower -
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina Aguilera -
The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.
Erich von Manstein -
I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.
John Irving