Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
Ramon Rodriguez -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
Edmund Phelps -
I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
Gary Lineker -
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Harmony Korine -
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
Jack Keane -
The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
Wayne Dyer -
People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
Fortune Feimster -
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
Baltasar Kormakur -
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
Lamar Alexander -
For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
Patrick Ness
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I couldn’t possibly do a love story like Maine Pyar Kiya. I can perhaps do a more mature love story. Then again, we tried a love story with Silsila but it didn’t work. One thing is for sure, we can’t be doing what Salman is doing.
Amitabh Bachchan -
When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
Antonio Porchia -
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
Christian Louboutin -
Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
Leroy Chiao -
Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
Sia LSD
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Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
Janet Mock -
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Willis R. Whitney -
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
E. B. White -
I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
Ma Jun -
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton