J. J. Abrams Quotes
And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.J. J. Abrams
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
Lady Starlight -
I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Bear Grylls -
I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain -
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
Adam Davidson -
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
Jack Nicklaus -
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill -
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
Vanna Bonta -
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch -
I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
Iris Apfel -
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
Natalie Cole -
Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
Mahershala Ali -
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
Karan Mahajan -
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
E. O. Wilson
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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
Garth Brooks -
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Madeleine Peyroux -
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian -
I did important films when I was very young.
Catherine Deneuve -
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
David Hockney -
And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.
J. J. Abrams