Ryan North Quotes
I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.Ryan North
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
Patricia Polacco -
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
Cameron Mathison -
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
Ted Shackelford -
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
Cameron Sinclair -
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
Vicki Lawrence
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
Jack Dorsey -
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour -
Smoke machines are the best!
Gail Carriger -
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
Edmund White -
I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
Eddie Huang -
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
Patricia MacLachlan
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
Ralph Hall -
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I. M. Pei -
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
Samantha Power -
In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
Adam Grant -
I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
Namie Amuro -
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
Dalai Lama -
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows -
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
Pauline Neville-Jones -
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I'm being honest, I say what I think.
Boy George Culture Club -
I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.
Ryan North