Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
Laura Miller -
I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
Caitlyn Jenner -
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
Kaki King
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
Tahar Rahim -
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
W. Averell Harriman -
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson -
For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
Edgar Ramirez -
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
Nate Berkus
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina -
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
Fisher Stevens -
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese -
If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
Madhuri Dixit -
I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
Flo Rida -
Life is one long jubilee.
Ira Gershwin
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I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
Ayn Rand -
I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
Alan Furst -
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.
Lou Boudreau -
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
Minor White -
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Letitia Barbauld