Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo -
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
Jacob deGrom -
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone -
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom -
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
Najib Razak -
At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
Marc Andreesen -
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
Jack Wild
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Edmund White -
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
Maajid Nawaz -
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
Laura Robson -
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
Danica Patrick -
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
Patricia Ireland
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We see that this is about more than just South Dakota. It's about the country. The bottom line in all of it is elections matter.
Nancy Keenan -
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
William Ruckelshaus -
I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
Matthew Sweet -
A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.
Earl Nightingale -
When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
Ferran Adria -
Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.
Sarah Ban Breathnach