Jackson Browne Quotes
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.Jackson Browne
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
Ice T -
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Nathan Myhrvold -
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
Dan Harmon -
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
Cameron Sinclair -
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
Jackie Speier -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie -
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky -
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder -
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Natalie Portman
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From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.
Alexander Koch -
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
Chris Christie -
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
David Axelrod -
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David -
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
Jackson Browne