Walter Isaacson Quotes
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Beck -
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
Parker Posey -
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
Gail Carson Levine -
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Adam Hochschild
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
Laura Mvula -
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
Patricia Norris -
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
Walter Gropius -
My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
Maluma -
I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. Kelly -
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
Karen Salmansohn -
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
Taylor Swift -
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
Frances Mayes -
Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
Ted Cruz -
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes -
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
Halima Aden
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
J. C. Watts -
I definitely want to have a family without a doubt. I want to know that kind of love, and I'm definitely thinking about it. I'm not afraid to have a little baby bump on stage someday.
Jessie Baylin -
Emotional Intelligence' refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. It describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capacities measured by IQ.
Daniel Goleman -
The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.
Philip Pullman -
I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.
Daniel Levitin -
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
Walter Isaacson