Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
Earl Weaver -
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
Edmund Morgan -
I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
Cara Delevingne -
I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
Gautam Gambhir -
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
J. Cole -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
Nadia Comaneci -
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
Ed Rendell -
I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
Taylor Schilling -
The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
Randi Weingarten -
There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
Carl Hagelin
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
Oliver Tambo -
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides -
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
Tali Lennox -
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
Rachel Zoe -
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver -
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino -
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
May Sarton -
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs -
I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.
Andrae Crouch -
I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
Faina Ranevskaya