John Landgraf Quotes
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
Jack Kerouac -
In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
J. C. Watts -
From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.
Dan Pfeiffer -
I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
Wayne Knight -
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
Edmund Phelps
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
Rachel Cohn -
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
Taylor Swift -
I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
Gagan Narang -
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle -
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head -
There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
Yami Gautam
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. Howe -
I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
M. Emmet Walsh -
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
Orhan Pamuk -
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Quentin Crisp -
We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
Parker Harris -
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
Pratibha Patil -
Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.
Cherie Blair -
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
John Dryden -
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
E. Joseph Cossman -
There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
Ilan Stavans -
Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?
John Landgraf