William Strunk, Jr. Quotes
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
Lance Armstrong
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
Abel Ferrara
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
Mara Liasson
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
Zack Snyder
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
Tamara Taylor
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
Sam Shepard
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
Owen Hart
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It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
Laila Robins
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Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
Alice Cooper
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I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan dive and landing with both the feet on the backbone of one of the minor fauna. Probably not, nor, as a matter of fact, have I.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Simon Newcomb
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If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
Bill Gates
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I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.
Tom Hardy
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.
