Harrison Ford Quotes
I just don't understand the need to name something 'the best' or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance - there can't be a contest in this area. I don't understand that.Harrison Ford
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck -
When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
Barry Ritholtz -
New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
Walter Gropius -
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
Fareed Zakaria
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
Said Nursi -
For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I'd know if it wasn't there. If that makes sense.
Warren Ellis -
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
Aaron Sorkin -
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
Ian MacKaye -
I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
Edgar Wright -
The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
Laura Moser
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
Ted Yoho -
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
Madeleine L'Engle -
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
Jack McDevitt -
People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.
J. G. Ballard -
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben Jonson
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I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.
Ani DiFranco -
MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.
A. R. Ammons -
I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.
Grace Martine Tandon -
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry -
If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences.
Eva Hoffman -
I just don't understand the need to name something 'the best' or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance - there can't be a contest in this area. I don't understand that.
Harrison Ford