Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.Rita Mae Brown
Quotes to Explore
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
Sam Altman -
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay -
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi -
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull -
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi -
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
M. J. Rose -
For me, family has always come first.
Candace Parker -
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi -
Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
Kate Williams -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez -
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
Ed Gillespie
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Kate Forsyth -
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
Irwin Redlener -
I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss -
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston -
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch -
I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
Mal Peet
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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.
Rachel Cusk -
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
Bill Frist -
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
Bobby McFerrin -
I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.
Felicity Jones -
I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.
Maxine Waters -
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
Rita Mae Brown