Carmen Boullosa Quotes
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone -
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen -
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
Garth Stein -
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. Howe
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
Iain McGilchrist -
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
Kate Winslet -
Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
Edward St Aubyn -
Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.
Marco Bizzarri -
Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
Mark McKinnon -
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
Linda Sue Park
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I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.
Jensen Ackles -
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore -
It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.
Elizabeth Wilson -
The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.
Georg Brandes -
Somehow, it soon seemed taken for granted by all three of them that the trip was a settled thing; and the Rat, though still unconvinced in his mind, allowed his good-nature to over-ride his personal objections.
Kenneth Grahame -
Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.
Jon Favreau
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
Ted Cruz -
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens -
You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.
Chris Matthews -
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov -
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
Nancy Gibbs -
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
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