Beth Revis Quotes
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
Ramez Naam -
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
Larry Kramer -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama -
I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
Samira Wiley -
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
Yash Chopra
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
Abbie Cornish -
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
Karen Traviss -
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
Dan Scanlon -
I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.
Dan Webster -
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde -
The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
Jack LaLanne
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I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
Taran Killam -
A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
Anzia Yezierska -
I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
Eldridge Cleaver -
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker -
I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations -
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
Joe Murray
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Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
Joseph Heller -
When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
Jane Velez-Mitchell -
The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
Edwidge Danticat -
After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
Lynn Johnston -
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
Samuel Barnett -
Don't stagnate because of fear.
Beth Revis