Molly Shannon Quotes

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

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• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Problems

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Day
  • Summer

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Proud
  • Involved
  • Simon

• But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Work
  • Art

• When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Homecoming

• School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • School

• You see a whole bunch of different looks in the NBA. Guys, like LeBron, have stylists now, and they do their own thing. Then you have Russell Westbrook, whose style is a little different. Every guy is wearing outfits to show their personality.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Style

• The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

  

  Donald Knuth

• We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

  

  Mark Rutte

• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • World
  • Trying
  • Walking

• The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very structured set-up and it's not conducive to get at the kinds of things I'm trying to portray using the cinematic apparatus to show black sociality and how it functions.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Black
  • Cinema
  • Functions

• I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

  

  Molly Shannon
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