Ivan Illich Quotes
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
Walter Cronkite -
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
Gal Gadot -
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. King
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
Rachael Taylor -
It is the greatest injustice done to Mondrian that people who are plastically blind see only decorative design instead of the plastic perfection which characterizes his work. The whole De Stijl group from which Mondrian's art was derived must be considered a protest against such blindness.
Hans Hofmann -
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
Galileo Galilei -
Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
Orson Scott Card -
Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
Augustus -
I live, to get out of what I live through.
Antonio Porchia -
You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.
Joanna Lumley -
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
Brian Jacques -
I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.
Brynn Cartelli -
I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.
Jerry Ferrara
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The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.
Don Shula -
I don't carry sai blades for the sake of it in my personal life. I had to learn how to manipulate the sais. It was very tricky, because it's a weird shape. It's like a big fork. There's a lot of ways that you can use them, but it's not like a sword.
Elodie Yung -
I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
Charlie Puth -
I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
Nan Fairbrother -
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich