Hyman G. Rickover Quotes
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.Hyman G. Rickover
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
Raekwon -
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
Nathan Fillion -
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
Hannah Tointon -
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza -
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon -
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
Action Bronson -
My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
Fairuza Balk -
As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
Vijay Sethupathi
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.
Zendaya -
I believe in the power of my subconscious mind and I am going to completely harness it.
Benjamin Smith -
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson -
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips -
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Hyman G. Rickover