Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.Neil Portnow
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
Daisy Ridley -
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
Iris Chang -
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
Daniel Espinosa -
I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
Palmer Luckey -
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
Vaclav Klaus -
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
Flip Wilson
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
Olivia Wilde -
I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
Pardis Sabeti -
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
E. L. Doctorow -
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
Carlisle Floyd -
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden -
Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spacey -
She’d walked a delicate line with commendable skill.But sometimes the best case wasn’t good enough.
Alastair Reynolds -
There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
Dawn Olivieri -
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
Martha Reeves -
A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
James J. Gibson -
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
James Lovelock
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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman -
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
Daniel Berrigan -
I know I just need one more chance to prove my love to you. And if you come back to me, I’ll guarantee that I’ll never let you go.
Boyz II Men -
It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community
Saul Perlmutter -
Saints cannot exist without a community
Stanley Hauerwas -
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.
Neil Portnow