George H. W. Bush Quotes
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
Haley Joel Osment -
I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
Quincy Jones -
Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
Zach LaVine -
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
Viggo Mortensen -
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
M. Emmet Walsh -
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
Harmony Korine
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
Wanda Sykes -
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
Randeep Hooda -
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
Barry Diller -
Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Irvine Welsh -
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
Joanne Rowling -
I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
Nancy Sinatra -
I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!
Nathalie Emmanuel -
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.
Gary Wright -
People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
Chuck Klosterman
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
Omari Hardwick -
My livelihood depends on the art of animators.
Andy Serkis -
I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
George H. W. Bush