Audie Cornish Quotes

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President Barack Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

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• The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Games

• Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • May
  • Power

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • School
  • Money

• You have to constantly redefine who you are.

  

  M.I.A.
  • You
  • Who
  • Redefine

• Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • You
  • Healing

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Sweet
  • Walk

• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Together
  • Band
  • Find

• I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beautiful

• Ivy is of longevity.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May
  • Purpose

• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Character
  • Darkness
  • Flame

• I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Why
  • Society

• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • First Thing

• You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Parents
  • Legend
  • Basement

• Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President Barack Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • President
  • Promise
  • Prison