Mike Birbiglia Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson -
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
Nas
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Cai Guo-Qiang -
I just sing. You have to use it.
Aaron Neville -
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
Dana Priest -
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Pasquier Quesnel -
I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Tamsin Egerton
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
Edgar Ramirez -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
Randy Travis -
Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
Imran Amed -
I am so loyal.
Kate Mara -
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Carlo Goldoni
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I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
Dakota Goyo -
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
Eisaku Sato -
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
Seth Godin -
Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
Ted Shackelford -
The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.
J. C. Ryle -
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
Mike Birbiglia