Leslie Cockburn Quotes
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.Leslie Cockburn
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori -
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
Jack Ma -
You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
Cam Newton -
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien -
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power -
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx -
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
Usher
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
Jack Vance -
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lyall Watson -
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
Mikhail Bakunin -
Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.
Lela Loren -
That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
Leslie Cockburn