Tom Atkins Quotes

Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
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• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
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  • Modern

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
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• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
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• I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Very

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Curiosity
  • Subjects
  • Surprised

• I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Moments

• Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

  

  Art Buchwald
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• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend

• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Control

• To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Obstacles

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Guy
  • Future
  • Crazy

• I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Women
  • Party
  • Effort

• Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

  

  Tom Atkins
  • Guy
  • Today
  • Gracious