Ernest Sosa Quotes
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.Ernest Sosa
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
Carlo Ratti -
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
Tariq Ali -
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
Carl Lewis
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Kat Dennings -
People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
Halle Berry -
I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
Quentin Blake -
I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
Hari Kunzru -
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
Salma Hayek
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Antonio Porchia -
More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.
Anand Giridharadas -
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
Jane Rule -
To go from 'Generation Kill,' which is a very real, dark, gritty series, to 'True Blood,' which is flamboyant, crazy, way out there... I couldn't ask for two better jobs.
Alexander Skarsgard -
When the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in Arizona as the Phoenix Cardinals, I became a fan and still am today.
Peter Billingsley -
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
Elia Kazan
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Oh, baby don't give up on us.I know your heart is full of doubt,You don't need to be withoutThese loving arms.I'll hold you through your darkest hourI'll be using all my power,So I can reach you.Oh my love, don't give up on us.
Sarah McLachlan -
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
Tom Scholz Boston -
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
John O. Brennan -
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
Ernest Sosa