Anthony Doerr Quotes
If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.Anthony Doerr
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
Gabrielle Reece -
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts -
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren -
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
T. J. Miller
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
Laura Dekker -
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
Nathan Fillion -
I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
Nancy Reagan
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley -
I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
Kat Dennings -
I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
Carli Lloyd -
I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
Halsey -
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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It's our responsibility as humans to take care of each other.
Caitlin Crosby -
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.
Anthony Doerr