Geoffrey Wolff Quotes
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
Natalie Wood -
Experience by itself is not science.
Edmund Husserl -
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini -
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
Mae Whitman -
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
Ian Frazier -
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
Hal Newhouser -
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
Naveen Jain -
I love to be in front of big galleries.
Natalie Gulbis -
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
Harold Feinstein -
I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
Ira Sachs -
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Walter Cronkite -
You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
Carly Fiorina -
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth -
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Majora Carter
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In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.
T. Colin Campbell -
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
Brooks Robinson -
You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.
Bisco Hatori -
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
Geoffrey Wolff