John Ortberg Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan -
But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
Laura Prepon -
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie -
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen -
I have a great office.
R. L. Stine
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
Dana Perino -
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss -
I would love to work with Matt Damon.
Idina Menzel -
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern -
I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
Edmond About -
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Patrick Swayze -
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore -
Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
Karen Allen -
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
Samuel P. Huntington -
People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
Fortune Feimster
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei -
It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.
Courtney B. Vance -
I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
Ne-Yo -
There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.
Ken Cuccinelli -
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
Fergus Henderson -
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
John Ortberg