Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
Barbara Corcoran -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
Nate Torrence -
Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
Zach McGowan
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You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
Ram Shriram -
When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
Wally Schirra -
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
Edward Abbey -
Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
Aldo Leopold -
Art is when things appear rounded.
Maurice Denis -
It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
Linda M. Godwin
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I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.
Neil Cavuto -
You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
Jaromir Jagr -
I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
Clive Owen -
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
Louise Erdrich -
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
Peter Coyote -
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.
Mary J. Blige
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When you are Uber, what we care about is the customer experience of getting somebody safely, cheaply, efficiently and reliably from where they are to where they want to go.
Anthony Levandowski -
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
Wellington Mara -
It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
Brian Austin Green -
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
Ellen Hollman -
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf