H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
Yayoi Kusama -
When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
Karen Finerman -
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
Sam Yagan
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner -
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Zosia Mamet -
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
Naomi Wolf -
Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
Valeria Golino -
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
Zac Goldsmith -
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
Cab Calloway -
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
Vic Willis -
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
Plato -
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
Omari Hardwick -
From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.
Douglas Brunt -
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
Samuel E. Morison -
Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.