Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
Adam Grant -
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
Marat Safin -
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau -
The market for local advertising is in the billions.
Sam Altman
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks -
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
Rachael Harris -
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
Raf Simons -
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
Daniel Craig -
It is a complex of buildings; a mosque, a guest house, an enormous entrance gate, four minaret towers and the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s wife. It is laid out in a rectangular grid on 42 acres along the Yamuna River, with water fountains and gardens and reflecting pools.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
Randall Jarrell -
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
Larry Page -
Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
Otto Weininger -
Norman saw on English oak.On English neck a Norman yoke;Norman spoon to English dish,And England ruled as Normans wish;Blithe world in England never will be more,Till England's rid of all the four.
Walter Scott -
District of Columbia welfare. The welfare work of the District of Columbia is administered by several different boards dealing with charities and various correctional efforts. It would be an improvement if this work were consolidated and placed under the direction of a single commission.
Calvin Coolidge -
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.
James Madison
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I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.
Geoffrey Hinton -
What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
David Foster Wallace -
I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
Donald Trump -
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Age will flatten a man.
Tommy Lee Jones