Harvey Milk Quotes
If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
Hannah Kent
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
Gayle Forman
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The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Valerie Jarrett
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The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
Ian Doescher
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
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(After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:) If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.
Walt Kelly
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I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.
Jerry Nachman
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The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.
Bryce Dessner The National
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When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.
Douglas Booth
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Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.
Paul Theroux
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For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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When competing a lot and traveling, I have problems with my lower back because I'm always on the plane or sitting. That's something that does bother me from time to time, but I try to stay on top of it.
Ana Ivanovic
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You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
Elizabeth Peyton
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I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.
DeRay Mckesson
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I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.
Mary Schapiro
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Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
James Altucher
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To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
Dave Eggers
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Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.
Mario J. Molina
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
Bram Stoker
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Be satisfied with nothing but your best.
Edward Rowland Sill
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I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.
Kris Allen
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I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was turned upside down, so I just had to draw from the lyrics and the voice that I would hear in my mind.
Andrae Crouch
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I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
Eva Mendes
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If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
Harvey Milk