Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
Gail Carson Levine -
I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
La'Porsha Renae -
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
Yves Behar -
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
Ed Royce -
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
Danica Patrick -
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Ian Hart -
I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
Vicki Lawrence -
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders -
For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
Galen Rowell
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
Jack Schwartz -
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
Daniel Breaker -
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Captain Beefheart -
Clothe me entire in the final filament, So that I tremble with such love so known And myself am precious for your perfecting.
Wallace Stevens -
Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.
Lucretius -
My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
Kahlil Gibran
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As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.
Akon -
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
Ted Naifeh -
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
Danny Boyle -
That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.
Elie Wiesel -
Give the credit to Dave (Odom). I may have jumped on board, but as soon as I got here and had a talk with Dave, one of the first things he mentioned was the history and some of the things he thought we should do; I happened to agree, but it started with him.
Eric Hyman -
People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.
Carol Plum-Ucci