Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.Madeleine M. Kunin
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
Victoria Moran -
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
Walter Winchell -
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes -
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
J. M. Coetzee -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
Ichiro Suzuki -
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean -
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
J. Philippe Rushton -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Jack Black -
There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
Mae Jemison
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To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
Banesh Hoffmann -
Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!
Imelda May -
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
Daniel Kahneman -
A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.
Quint Studer -
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Madeleine M. Kunin