Basil Wolverton Quotes
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
Yo-Yo Ma -
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor -
I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
Paige VanZant -
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
Sade Adu -
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
Jane Austen -
...the key factor in industry is creativity. I said there are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
Akio Morita -
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville -
Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.
Charles Duhigg -
I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.
Jason Day -
My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.
Kevin Hart
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Women who have understood fashion and style for so long have always known it's not about having more pieces. It's about having the right pieces and having the pieces that are of a great quality and look like you know what you're doing. You don't have to have a million things on.
Meghan Markle -
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Abraham Lincoln -
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
John Stuart Blackie -
I eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Colbie Caillat -
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
Saul Bellow -
Get wise, youse guys!
Basil Wolverton