John Niven Quotes
When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'John Niven
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
Zachary Quinto -
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer -
I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
Landon Liboiron -
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian Mckellen -
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
Larry Smith -
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Natalie Goldberg -
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
Abraham Verghese
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
Kailash Kher -
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
Frances Beinecke -
My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
Taylor Lautner -
All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
Victoria Aveyard -
I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
Kate Brown -
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
Sally Quinn
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We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
Emeril Lagasse -
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown -
People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
Kanye West -
I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson -
If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
Bill Burr -
When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'
John Niven