Gary Soto Quotes
It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.Gary Soto
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
Ice Cube -
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt -
Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
Ted McGinley -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin -
We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones -
I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
L'Wren Scott -
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Abraham Verghese -
It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
Malala Yousafzai -
Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman
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I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.
Gaby Hoffmann -
If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that 'All abilities come from one mind' sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'
Ad Reinhardt -
My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.
Alber Elbaz -
I've got to literally write my own ticket.
Kay Cannon -
The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.
David Hewson
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I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.
Rachel Bilson -
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
Alberto Manguel -
“I’ve always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.”
Adolph Rupp -
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.
Ted Nelson -
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'
Melina Matsoukas -
It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.
Gary Soto