John Sexton Quotes

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

John Sexton

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Culture
  • Thought

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Gun
  • Times

• The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • American
  • America
  • Independent

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Myself

• We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Power
  • Seen
  • Unstoppable

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
  • Really
  • Line

• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parents
  • College
  • Imagination

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• I know one business, and that's how to make software.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Business
  • Know
  • Software

• Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Giving
  • Imagination
  • Film

• I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • You
  • Know
  • End

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Live
  • Power
  • Ideas

• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  

  John Sexton
  • Power
  • Beautiful
  • Plant