Mona Simpson Quotes
The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.Mona Simpson
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
Oscar Pistorius -
I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
Queen Latifah -
Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
Becky G -
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch -
I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
Fiona Gubelmann -
I want to play until the end.
Gabrielle Reece
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
Maluma -
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben -
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
Imelda Marcos -
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
Ulrich Beck -
I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
Ada Yonath -
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy
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I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
Kristen Bell -
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
Alexander Wang -
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
Douglass North -
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
Charlotte Rampling -
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
Brendan Coyle
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The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Che Guevara -
I don't consider myself a sex symbol.
Pia Zadora -
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
Rick Atkinson -
The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson