Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.Alfred Hitchcock
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
Ralph Baer -
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
Ozwald Boateng -
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
Gary Frank -
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
Taylor Swift -
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
Laraine Day -
To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
Gail Carriger
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
Karyn Parsons -
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Fidel Castro -
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
Gary Johnson -
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
Zach LaVine -
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
Sam Kinison -
People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
Gary Johnson
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
Kanye West -
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier -
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden -
People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
Yo-Yo Ma -
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
Kate Christensen -
My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
Edmund White
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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
Brian May Queen -
As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
John M. Grunsfeld -
...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Virginia Woolf -
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
Eve Ensler -
Unless people who voted for unionist parties are suddenly going to vote for a united Ireland, which I don't believe will happen, a border poll will be defeated.
Leo Varadkar -
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock