J. F. Lawton Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe -
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger -
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
Nancy Gibbs -
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North -
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart Tolle -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Ira Glass -
Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
Vicki Lawrence -
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White -
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I love books.
Gail Porter -
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
Walt Mossberg -
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
Dale Archer
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Gorgeous exfoliants are expensive.
Jonathan Van Ness -
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.
Anthony Zerbe -
What could be a better recipe than mixing fashion and food?
Chiara Ferragni -
Time does not die; only people.
J. F. Lawton