John Whiting Quotes
We have a company in Rochester, it doesn't matter what's going on around the world; it stays constant and that's Mayo.John Whiting
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian -
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey -
A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten -
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
Hampton Sides -
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
Adam Peaty -
People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
Abby Wambach -
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
Tamsin Egerton -
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Adam McKay -
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne -
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
Frances Mayes
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
Quincy Jones -
For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.
Edgardo Osorio -
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta -
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra -
I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
Karen Allen -
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama
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Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocumented people. Trump has just taken that policy and ratcheted it up several notches. He's made it much more intense. We've had situations where people who would have been covered by the Obama administration, people who had been promised a path toward legal residency, had that taken away. I did not imagine that. I could never have imagined that happening.
Hector Tobar -
I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.
Akiane Kramarik -
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Warren Ellis -
I feel basically good about my career because it's remained constant. What I do has never been especially in vogue or gotten high on the charts. At the same time, I haven't had to stop performing any of my music because it aged in style.
John Prine -
We have a company in Rochester, it doesn't matter what's going on around the world; it stays constant and that's Mayo.
John Whiting