Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.Richard Scott Bakker
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
Laura Dern -
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
Eddie Marsan
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
Octavia E. Butler -
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
Warren Spector -
The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
Lapo Elkann
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
Natalie Massenet -
Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
Abraham Lincoln -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
Candice S. Miller -
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
B. F. Skinner
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
Brady Anderson -
Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
Chogyam Trungpa -
I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
Barack Obama -
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
Richard Scott Bakker