R. A. Torrey Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
Fantasia Barrino -
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
Sam Shepard -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
Ram Dass -
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
Patricia Polacco -
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
Ursula Burns -
I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
Valentina Tereshkova -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
Ed Rendell -
We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
Mads Mikkelsen -
If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
Taylor Dayne -
My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.
Grace Martine Tandon
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Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
Charles Krauthammer -
I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac -
I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
Octavia Spencer -
The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
R. A. Torrey