Parker Palmer Quotes
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
Vince Lombardi -
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Ralph G. Neas -
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley -
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
Vincent Cassel -
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Zachary Levi -
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland -
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
Carl Hiaasen -
When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
M. J. Rose
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
Gail Simmons -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard -
People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
Randeep Hooda -
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson
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I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
Taissa Farmiga -
Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
Orson Scott Card -
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.
Dinesh D'Souza -
If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.
Margrethe Vestager -
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
B. F. Skinner -
If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.
Parker Palmer