Wendy Kaminer Quotes
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.Wendy Kaminer
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
I'm not interested in celebrity.
Orlando Bloom -
You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
T. C. Boyle -
You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
Adam Beach -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Larry Niven
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q -
I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
Nate Robinson -
Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
Eddie Albert -
By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Randi Weingarten -
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
Jack Kerouac
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
Agnes Martin -
I really like beef jerky. If we go to a gas station, I have to buy beef jerky.
Emily Ratajkowski -
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
Bjork -
I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.
Jessie James Decker -
It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
David Cassidy -
We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.
Janet Yellen
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In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
Anita Elberse -
I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'
Caitlin Moran -
There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.
Peter Morgan -
A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.
Barack Obama -
It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.
Avey Tare Animal Collective -
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.
Wendy Kaminer