Alexander Payne Quotes
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
Jack Horner -
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Patricia Highsmith -
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
Paris Hilton -
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
Gary Hart -
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
Kapil Dev -
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Igor Stravinsky
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
Dan Hill -
Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
Samantha Harvey -
When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
Candis Cayne -
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons -
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch Spinoza -
Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
Jackson Katz -
The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
Hamza Yusuf -
The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.
Hans Adolf Krebs -
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry -
Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.
Marianne Williamson -
We can’t change history, but we can create the future.
Erwin McManus -
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
Angela Kinsey -
I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.
Katie Taylor -
Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.
Alexander Payne