John Tiffany Quotes
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
P. J. Soles -
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
Queen Latifah -
I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
Gabriel Luna -
Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
Gary Herbert -
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
Sam Kean -
I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
Kate Middleton -
I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
Maika Monroe -
Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
Vikram Patel -
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
Harri Holkeri -
We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
Baba Kalyani
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
Pamela Dean -
If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Jehovah was the tribal god of Israel. Fortunately he was stronger and more terrible than the gods of the neighboring tribes, so that he was able to drive them out and give their land to his own people, but he was not fundamentally different from them and they were believed to be quite as real as Jehovah.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Omar Khayyam -
They make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.
Claude Bernard -
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. Forster -
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling -
Retiring is the easy way out.
Venus Williams -
One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.
Jon Lester -
'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.
John Tiffany