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My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.Anchee Min
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson -
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah -
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion -
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff -
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
Sam Altman -
Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster -
Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
Naftali Bennett
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
Nathan Fillion -
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
Carlene Carter -
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik -
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
L.A. Reid -
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
Olivia Holt -
Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
Walt Whitman -
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
Elizabeth Warren -
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
Michael Graves -
My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
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