John Muir Quotes
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.John Muir
Quotes to Explore
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey -
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid -
I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
Rachel Bloom -
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
Quincy Jones -
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Salma Hayek -
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
Vijay Mallya -
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
Maddie Hasson -
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
Hari Kunzru -
The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
Taylor Mali -
I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
Katee Sackhoff -
I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
Walter Alston -
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
Warren Bennis
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The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.
Jay Samit -
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
Denis Kearney -
I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
Lauren Potter -
I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
Walter Mosley -
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John Muir