John Witherspoon Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
Adam Hicks -
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
Aarti Sequeira -
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
Larry Kramer -
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
Laura Ingraham
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren Bennis -
One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
Ted Danson -
Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
Zoe Saldana
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
Sam Harris -
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman -
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
Youssou N'Dour -
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith -
When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
Daniel Bryan -
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
Carlene Carter -
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
David Wilkerson -
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
Emile Zola -
People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Patrick Henry -
It is only the fear of God, can deliver us from the fear of man.
John Witherspoon