Annie Barrows Quotes
We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.Annie Barrows
Quotes to Explore
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston -
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero -
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama -
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
Patrick Stewart -
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
Salman Rushdie
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
Vidal Sassoon -
What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
Ed Lee -
People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
Sam Altman -
I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
Larisa Oleynik -
There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
Valentino Garavani -
Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
Barbara Park
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino -
The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
Karen Elson -
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
Fay Vincent -
Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
Gary Ross -
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
Taraji P. Henson -
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.
Oliver Cromwell -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
Max Heindel -
I'm such a theater geek. Most of my friends are in this community, and it's really important for me to keep doing it. It takes the ego out of acting, whereas movies tend to involve it.
Ari Graynor -
We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
Annie Barrows