Alistair Cockburn Quotes
A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).Alistair Cockburn
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon -
I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
Mahershala Ali -
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White -
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
Namie Amuro -
I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Frances McDormand
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
Aaron Sorkin -
What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
Lara Stone -
I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
Ban Ki-moon
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Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
Abraham Maslow -
Ian Smith.
Ian Smith -
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
Matt Taibbi -
Hatred observes with more care than love does.
Mason Cooley -
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
Brené Brown -
To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
Colin Kaepernick
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There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.
Mario Balotelli -
There is light in the heart; there is no darkness in it. If a man's head be struck off, we cannot say who the man is by simply looking at his trunk. It is the heart which sees through the eye. A man must have the internal eye.
Bhagawan Nityananda -
If there ever was an 'America's team,' it would be itty-bitty, little Green Bay, stuck way up there somewhere, owned by the salt-of-the-Earth citizens themselves.
Frank Deford -
I'm going to be in technology for a long time.
Eric Lefkofsky -
Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.
Rick Perry -
A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).
Alistair Cockburn