Ann Packer Quotes
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
Viet D. Dinh -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Ramana Maharshi -
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy -
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple -
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay -
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
A. James Clark -
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
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
Gail Sheehy -
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett -
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster -
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Barbara Bush
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
Daniel Craig -
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
H. G. Bissinger -
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
Amanda Bynes -
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
Vikram Seth -
Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
Ann Packer