Lynn Swann Quotes
I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.Lynn Swann
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
Imogen Poots -
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
Barbara Kingsolver -
What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
Narada Michael Walden -
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell -
It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
Natasha Lyonne -
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino -
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
Dan Glickman -
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
Laura Dekker
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Gary Shteyngart -
Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
Zach LaVine -
I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
Rafael dos Anjos -
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
Randy Schekman -
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
Zaha Hadid -
I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
Hank Azaria
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I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
David S. Goyer -
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Don McCullin -
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke -
Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
Warren Stephens -
I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.
Sarah Michelle Gellar -
I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.
Lynn Swann