Erin McKean Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
AJ McLean -
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
Gabrielle Union -
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
Ian MacKaye
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
Narendra Modi -
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
Hamdi Ulukaya -
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken -
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
Kate Williams -
Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
Randy Pausch
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
Jack London -
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
D. H. Lawrence -
Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
Clive Barker -
Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
Enrique Pena Nieto -
I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
Chris Stapleton -
The PPP is not just a political party. This is our life.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Edwin Land -
I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.
Joseph Brodsky -
If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
James Thurber -
Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.
Jada Pinkett Smith -
Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Erin McKean