Patrick deWitt Quotes
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.Patrick deWitt
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A. R. Rahman -
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
Origen -
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet -
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Warren Spahn -
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
Lapo Elkann -
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
Umberto Guidoni
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
Gail Collins -
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian -
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker -
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
Carl Lewis -
The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
Vic Snyder
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
Randi Weingarten -
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall -
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Ed Gillespie -
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
Iman
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They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
Horace -
The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
Larry Drake -
It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.
Yance Ford -
I am running (for president) because I think the world is falling apart.
Lindsey Graham -
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
Patrick deWitt