Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
Carlene Carter -
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner -
How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
Nana Mouskouri -
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
Kate Atkinson -
I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.
Tammy Duckworth
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Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
Gary Bettman -
President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.
Lael Brainard -
It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.
Olivia Colman -
Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
Randy Pausch -
Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?' (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek
Nancy Pelosi -
'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'
Ian Fleming
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I'm gonna tell you something right now, Indian people in the United States are the hardest working people I've ever seen, and that's coming from a Mexican, okay?
Gabriel Iglesias -
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Edward Young -
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein -
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
Jim Cooper -
Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
Jim Cooper -
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
Kevin Kelly -
You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
Seth Godin -
The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.
Brian Tracy -
Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
Jim Gaffigan -
I was a late bloomer.
Alia Shawkat