Nomy Arpaly Quotes
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.Nomy Arpaly
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
Barbara Corcoran -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
Irina Shayk -
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
I love doing serious movies for adults.
Carla Gugino
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig -
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Abraham Verghese -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
Zach McGowan -
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Edna Ferber
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I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
Patti Stanger -
It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
Jeff Nichols -
I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
James Randi -
I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
Masayoshi Son -
I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
Louis Theroux -
'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
Bret Stephens
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Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.
Anita Baker -
I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.
Jacques Dubochet -
An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!
Ariana Grande -
I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.
James Branch Cabell -
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.
Nomy Arpaly