N. Scott Momaday Quotes
The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.N. Scott Momaday
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA twigs -
I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow -
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole -
Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
Jack Nicklaus -
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
Dambisa Moyo
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
Vanessa Mae -
You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
Young Jeezy -
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
Calvin Klein -
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
Hailee Steinfeld -
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
Lady Gaga -
That one should practice what one preaches is generally agreed, but anyone who has the indiscretion to preach what both he and his hearers practice must always incur-as Lord Chesterfield has incurred-the gravest moral reprobation.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.
Alicia Witt -
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
Margaret Fuller -
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
Leonardo da Vinci -
As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.
David Harewood
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Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
J. G. Ballard -
My daughter was a beautiful child.
Bernie Mac -
Sometimes, you need someone to believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.
Brian Tyree Henry -
My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.
Jason Chaffetz -
The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.
N. Scott Momaday