Baratunde Thurston Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
Jack Prelutsky -
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams -
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke -
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush -
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
Dan O'Brien
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Nanci Griffith -
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
Jack Youngblood -
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
Larry Hagman -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler -
Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
Edgar Wright
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair -
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings -
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.
Carl Sagan -
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu -
I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
Dane Cook -
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. King
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That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
Alexander Payne -
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
William Barrett -
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
Oswald Chambers -
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
Ellie Goulding -
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
Joe Swanberg -
Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.
Baratunde Thurston