George A. Romero Quotes
I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.George A. Romero
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
Octavia Spencer -
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Samuel Adams -
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
Rachel Sklar -
The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
Flume -
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
Fabiola Gianotti -
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
Abigail Washburn
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
Majel Barrett -
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas -
Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
Karl Pilkington -
I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
Adam Grant -
Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
Vicente Fox -
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
Barry Eisler
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
Hans Vestberg -
Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use celebrities' voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.
Ingrid Newkirk -
As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.
Nadine Gordimer -
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
Albert Pike -
Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.
David Jolly -
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
Emily Greene Balch
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Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.
Jennifer Holliday -
I became an actor despite that. But with this look, who's going to think I'm gay? It would be hard to take me for someone like that. Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?
Mel Gibson -
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Donald Rumsfeld -
The people who run the international tests told us, 'the biggest predictor of student success is choice.' Nations that 'attach the money to the kids' and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.
John Stossel -
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
Marianne Williamson -
I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.
George A. Romero