T. C. Boyle Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
Ted Turner -
You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
Caitriona Balfe -
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir -
I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
Gary Bettman -
Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
Walter Kohn
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
Beck -
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine -
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner -
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg -
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
Victoria Principal
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
J. K. Simmons -
I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
Yami Gautam -
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
Olivia De Havilland -
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
Sam Walton
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
Acker Bilk -
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Lamar Alexander -
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
Valerie June -
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.
Elliott Sober -
Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
T. C. Boyle