John Owen Quotes
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond -
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
Larry Ellison -
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
Natalie Portman -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
Ira Glass
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans -
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney -
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss -
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
Quavo Migos -
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
Malorie Blackman -
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X -
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides -
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
Camille Paglia -
I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
R. Kelly
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Paul Whiteman -
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.
Otto Weininger -
But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.
Khaled Hosseini -
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
Boris Becker -
Leanness of body and soul may go together.
John Owen