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William Landay

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• I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Hero

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Film
  • Excited

• I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Security

• For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Value
  • Genius

• From an unknown land and through distant skies came a winged warrior. Nothing remained sacred, no one is safe from the Hellion as it uttered it's battle cry... Screaming for vengeance.

  

  Rob Halford Judas Priest
  • Warrior
  • Remain
  • Screaming

• Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Night
  • Hand
  • Sales

• I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Work

• It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

  

  Marquis de Sade

• I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Great
  • Leadership

• I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

  

  Mariska Hargitay

• Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

  

  John Zorn
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Life
  • Stop

• We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

  

  Jon Porter
  • World

• I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • School
  • Dream

• The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • World
  • Live
  • Senses

• He has a bone bruise, plus he has a chip, which we cleaned out. We sat and talked to Brandon a long time. He is super important to us. We decided it was probably best for the team and for him, rather than to try and rush him back, to put him in IR.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Emotional
  • Act
  • Object

• Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • High
  • Dance
  • Deep

• I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Stupid

• We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • World
  • Different
  • Growth

• I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Big

• I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

  

  William Landay
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