Etel Adnan Quotes
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson -
Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
Naval Ravikant -
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow -
Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
Tamara Ecclestone -
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah bint Saud -
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
Olivia Colman -
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Maggie Smith -
The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut -
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.
Sean Paul -
Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
Jenny Lewis -
I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?
Jessica Biel -
I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.
Daniel Radcliffe -
I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
Robert James Ritchi
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
Garth Nix -
Writing has never been a driving force within me.
Jeffrey Combs -
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
Lauren DeStefano -
Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
Adam Cohen -
A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.
Bessel van der Kolk -
The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan