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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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 -
I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
Patti Stanger -
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
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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 -
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 -
I want to feel like I can dance or party all night and not be worried about people stepping on my dress.
Aidy Bryant -
Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a lot of training and learning that goes on, which adds to the cost of the model.
Pierre Omidyar
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Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
Will Ferrell -
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
Octavia E. Butler -
I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
Barack Obama -
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
Emily Bronte -
I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.
P. C. Cast -
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.
Nomy Arpaly