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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 -
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
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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 -
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta -
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 -
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.
Lindsey Vonn -
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III -
Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
Katharine Hepburn -
I’ll get a glimmer of an idea and the rest is just chipping away. It’s a long process, and most of my music undergoes many changes over the weeks or months that I’m writing. The songs change during touring, too, but the recording process always comes first.
Boney James -
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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