John Singer Sargent Quotes
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
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I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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Mine is the horny hand of toil.
