Mac Barnett Quotes
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
Mac Barnett
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You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
Hailee Steinfeld
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston
When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.
Sam Smith
I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
Aarti Sequeira
I've never said, 'I live for art.'
Zubin Mehta
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
P. L. Travers
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. Forster
After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
Warren Farrell
'You’re bright,' Lupe said to her softly. 'Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose your realities. You can’t.'
Octavia E. Butler
I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
Steve Wilkos
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound
My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
There are the people in this world who act, and the people who scheme. The ones who act get things done, and the ones who scheme try to take credit for it. You must know that as well as I do.
Algis Budrys
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
Mac Barnett
