William Stafford Quotes
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
Valerie Plame -
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
Rafael Correa -
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson -
I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
Zoey Deutch -
You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. Abrams -
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine -
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
Bebe Rexha -
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
Ice Cube -
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
Mandy Patinkin -
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
Cameron Russell -
'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
Laila Ali
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
Taylor Momsen -
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
Omari Hardwick -
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
Jackie Chan
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I never get tired of hearing compliments.
John Lithgow -
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong -
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.
Daniel Snyder -
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
John Osborne -
No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
George Washington -
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
William Stafford