Nancy Knowlton Quotes

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Hair
  • Rip
  • T-shirt

• I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Community
  • Doing

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• I was born free.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Free
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Past
  • Myself

• In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • America
  • Think
  • Change

• Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Tapes

• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Evil
  • Meant To Be

• The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Media

• If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Girl
  • Silly

• You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Movie

• I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

  

  Beth Broderick
  • Up

• If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

  

  Harry Vardon
  • Shots
  • Opponent
  • Strokes

• My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Violence
  • View

• Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • True
  • Way

• Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.

  

  Nancy Knowlton
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