Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
Walter Payton -
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner -
So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
A. R. Rahman -
I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
Barry Goldwater -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
Adam Brody -
I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
Kate Dickie -
Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
Zebulon Pike -
I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
Camille Guaty -
I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
Larry the Cable Guy
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
Larry Bird -
The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.
P. L. Travers -
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
Isaac Asimov -
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
Amy Tan -
How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
Bertrand Russell -
The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
Alice Ripley
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I don't think Palin really led to Trump. Was this somehow a bit of a precursor or something? I'm willing to say, 'Maybe so.'
Bill Kristol -
It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
Alexander Lowen -
If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
Jack Reynor -
As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.
Natasha Little -
In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.
John Frusciante -
Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente
Geoffrey Chaucer