Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.Meghan O'Rourke
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
Haile Gebrselassie -
On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman -
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
Irene Joliot-Curie -
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Patrick Kavanagh
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
Oliver Tambo -
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
Sam Walton -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand -
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
Padgett Powell -
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall -
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince -
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo -
It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
Mahershala Ali -
First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Nadia Giosia -
You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
Jack McBrayer -
I remember seeing 'Falsettos' on the Tonys in '92 and being like, 'What the hell was that show?'
Andrew Rannells
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There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It's like, that's the essence of 'Spider-Man.'
Jon Watts -
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Viggo Mortensen -
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
Umberto Eco -
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
William Lyon Phelps -
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
Meghan O'Rourke