Vernon L. Smith Quotes
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.Vernon L. Smith
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
Felice Picano -
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann -
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien -
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson -
My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
Cameron van der Burgh -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith -
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
Olivia De Havilland -
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
J. J. Abrams -
In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson -
To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
R. Kelly -
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen -
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.
Audra McDonald -
We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.
Jim Hunt -
The first year of marriage, you definitely get to throw the wife card out whenever you're mad.
Jamie Lynn Spears -
He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.
Anthony Burgess -
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese -
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
Vernon L. Smith