George Steiner Quotes
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
Olivia DeJonge -
I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox -
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall -
The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
Yoko Ono -
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush -
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
Edgar Wright -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
Eddie Trunk -
I don't want to do only blockbusters.
Orlando Bloom -
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. Bissinger -
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
J. K. Simmons
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
Ted Cruz -
Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
S. Truett Cathy -
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass -
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
Barry Ritholtz -
It certainly will be if you are still around.
Oscar Levant -
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
T. S. Eliot
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I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
Chris Matthews -
A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
Confucius -
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
Wayne Thiebaud -
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Stephen Covey -
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
George Steiner