Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.Paolo Bacigalupi
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine -
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
Malin Akerman -
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
P. Chidambaram -
My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
Ban Ki-moon -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
Aaron Patzer -
Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
Randi Weingarten -
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
Kate Smith -
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce -
I have always loathed working out.
Tea Leoni -
All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity -
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling -
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden -
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
Naftali Bennett -
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana -
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman
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Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.
Chance The Rapper -
I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
Sandra Bullock -
Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
Katha Pollitt -
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
Anthony Geary -
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
Paolo Bacigalupi