Nell Irvin Painter Quotes
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?Nell Irvin Painter
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Tammy Bruce -
To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
Ednita Nazario -
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
Dabney Coleman -
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx -
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin -
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
Barbara Kruger -
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
Paloma Picasso -
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
Rachel Boston -
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett -
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.
Rami Malek -
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
Bear Grylls -
It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
Felicity Kendal -
Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Thomas Sowell -
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
Lewis Carroll -
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge -
I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!
Achy Obejas -
Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen.” His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named “flow.” In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.
Edward Hallowell -
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?
Nell Irvin Painter