William R. Alger Quotes
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.William R. Alger
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
Yves Saint Laurent -
I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
Rae Carson -
I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
When you fall in love, you become weak.
Zola Jesus
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
Carl Wilson -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
Aaron Paul -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman -
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
Iman -
I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
Daisy Ridley
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
Yoko Ono -
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
Kaley Cuoco -
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
Candace Bushnell -
So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
Walter Salles
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
Damon Galgut -
I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
Jesmyn Ward -
As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
LZ Granderson -
My mind can't always be on fighting.
Demetrious Johnson -
The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
Robert Smith The Cure -
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
William R. Alger