Leroy Hood Quotes
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
Halldor Laxness -
Radio is for driving.
Ira Glass -
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen -
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
J.P. Rangaswami -
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
Natalie MacMaster -
I don't remember feeling love.
Quincy Jones
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Walter Reisch -
We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
Nandan Nilekani -
I could have coached better.
Dan Devine -
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
Kate McKinnon -
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
Ram Dass -
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
Wadah Khanfar
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
Kapil Sibal -
I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Zachary Quinto -
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
Oscar Wilde -
I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
A. R. Ammons -
There is one thing, and only one, in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. That one thing is Man. We do not merely observe men, we are men. In this case we have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know.
C. S. Lewis -
There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words.
Anu Garg
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.
Nicholas Negroponte -
Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.
Wesley Morris -
In the end, what counts is what you do.
Leroy Hood