Lorrie Moore Quotes
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
Lorrie Moore
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
Laura Linney
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor
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My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
Kat Graham
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
Ada Yonath
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
Veerappa Moily
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Manfred Eigen
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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
Patrick J. Adams
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
Edmund Phelps
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
Ma Huateng
