John Requa Quotes
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
Maimonides -
One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
Jack Palance -
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
Frances McDormand -
We want laws to be applied predictably.
Nancy Gibbs -
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
F. Murray Abraham -
I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
Mandy Patinkin
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner -
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Kate Morton -
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges -
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
Nathan Kress -
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
Nassau William Senior -
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
Garry Wills
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving -
If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.
Lamar Odom -
Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Larry Ellison -
You don't talk to terror organizations!
Naftali Bennett -
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
Ogden Nash
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I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
Mary J. Blige -
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
We have to get some shots to go in. We haven't shot 40 percent yet in five league games. That's pretty difficult to weather.
Dan Monson -
Sometimes it's good to say no. Sometimes it's good to not act impulsively.
Phoebe Robinson -
I would say that I don't look for musical things.
Will Chase -
Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.
John Requa