Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.Erik Weihenmayer
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius -
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs -
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
Ilya Ilyin -
Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
Frances O'Grady
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
L. Neil Smith -
To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
Ian Somerhalder -
Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.
Mary Beard -
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi -
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
Albert Hammond, Jr. -
One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
Mark Skousen
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I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.
Alber Elbaz -
I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.
David Henry Hwang -
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
Matt Damon -
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
Deborah Tannen -
We need the cops, especially in the black community.
Charles Barkley -
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
Janet Yellen
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Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.
Chris Evans -
The best class I ever took in high school was typing.
Keith Hernandez -
Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
Esther Renay Dean -
The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?
James Cromwell -
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
Paul D. Boyer -
When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
Erik Weihenmayer