Michael Dirda Quotes
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.Michael Dirda
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown -
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
Randa Haines -
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin -
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Ted Danson -
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
J. C. Ryle
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
Irina Shayk -
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
Ted Demme -
There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
Vicki Lawrence -
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Vernor Vinge
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I am married.
Laura Schlessinger -
All children should have equal opportunities.
Victor Ponta -
My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
Camille Paglia -
Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
Anna Akhmatova -
The energy that's going into autonomous vehicles is very significant, and we expect to continue to invest there.
Dennis Muilenburg
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.
Brian Azzarello -
I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.
Kevin Harvick -
I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.
Dylan O'Brien -
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
Michael Dirda