Rachel Kushner Quotes
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.Rachel Kushner
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
Patrick Lencioni -
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
Nathan Fillion -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta -
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker -
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
Wanda Jackson
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman -
Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
Gary Johnson -
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
Rafael dos Anjos -
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz -
I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
Kate Christensen
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
Dan Aykroyd -
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
I'm a darned good listener.
Naomi Judd -
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
Edgar Winter
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
Oprah Winfrey -
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
Lana Del Rey -
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
Linwood Barclay -
If you want a friend, buy a dog.
Kevin O'Leary -
Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.
Jean-Marie Messier -
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner