Anna Hempstead Branch Quotes
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
Landon Donovan -
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney -
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
Maiara Walsh -
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman -
Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
Yami Gautam -
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
Lake Bell -
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith -
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt -
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky -
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
Nathan Myhrvold -
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
Florence Nightingale -
Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
Walter Benjamin -
I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
Cyrano de Bergerac -
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter -
I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.
David Keith -
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
Jeffrey Deitch
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume -
But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
Don Cheadle -
I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
Alan Hansen -
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
Amber Tamblyn -
God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
Ernest Holmes -
If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me.
Anna Hempstead Branch