Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
Radhanath Swami -
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham -
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner -
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade -
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
Jack Horner -
For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
Laura Harring
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
Abby Wambach -
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
Uzo Aduba -
In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
Zubin Mehta -
If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Tavi Gevinson -
I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
Indra Nooyi
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
Victoria Abril -
I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
Natasha Little -
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Sam Harris -
I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. Abrams -
I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
Zubin Mehta -
He Corot is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.
Edgar Degas
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Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
Kevin Rose -
I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
Gabe Jennings -
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Love is based on imagination.
Olivier Martinez -
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas -
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
Alex Faickney Osborn