Reid Hoffman Quotes
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
Oscar Isaac -
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
Dan Hicks -
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
Garry Marshall -
In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
Fanny Howe -
Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
Malik Jackson -
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
Salman Rushdie
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
Harold Ramis -
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym -
I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
Pat Buchanan -
My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.
Manish Dayal -
…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!
Ted Dekker
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Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.
Alison Lurie -
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.
Nancy E. Turner -
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein -
Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.
Marc Benioff -
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
Paloma Faith