Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
Madeline Kahn -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
Ildar Abdrazakov -
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
Gabriella Wilde -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin -
There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
Hans Vestberg
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton -
I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
Rachel Platten -
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi -
People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
Taylor Kitsch
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The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
Naomi Klein -
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
Walter Gilbert -
I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
Laura San Giacomo -
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Sadaharu Oh -
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance -
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
Omari Hardwick
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If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
Bre Pettis -
You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
Phil Lord -
I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
Adam Oates -
People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
Laurieann Gibson -
When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.
Ashish Sharma -
My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
Ottessa Moshfegh