Alan Alda Quotes
You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.Alan Alda
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Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
Dan Gilbert -
Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
Dani Shapiro -
Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
Fiona Shaw -
A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
Adam Carolla -
I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph -
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
Washed Out -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza -
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
Naveen Jain -
My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
Padma Lakshmi
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander -
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
B. B. King -
I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
Karen DeCrow -
I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
Tariq Anwar -
I was writing a lot even as a kid.
Hailey Gates
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Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
Joe Haldeman -
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
Rudyard Kipling -
I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
Ella Baker -
Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.
David Whyte -
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.
Alan Alda