William Stafford Quotes
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.William Stafford
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
Tamron Hall -
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte -
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
Dan Farmer -
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
Zoe Saldana -
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
Dan Lipinski
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof -
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant -
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull -
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg -
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian -
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
Natalia Tena -
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
Malcolm X -
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
Manuel Puig -
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
Ira Glass -
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
Eddie Albert -
I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
Kate Middleton
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There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.
Madeleine de Souvre -
Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.
Ian Hogarth -
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
William Ellery Channing -
Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
Kate Mosse -
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
Jason Alexander -
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
William Stafford