Paul Thomson Quotes
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
Zoe Kazan
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
Ramez Naam
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I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
Taylor Lautner
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Majora Carter
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
Oscar Isaac
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
Ed Bradley
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
Adam Davidson
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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
Tamron Hall
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
Lapo Elkann
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
Octavia Spencer
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
Malala Yousafzai
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
Oscar Wilde
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
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I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.
Lisa Lampanelli
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand