Elaine Sciolino Quotes
The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.Elaine Sciolino
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
Tavi Gevinson -
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
Daniel Drew -
You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
Dan Webster -
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
Maeve Binchy
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Gamaliel Bailey -
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou -
I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
Kate McKinnon -
A hard man is good to find.
Mae West -
We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
Eden Ahbez -
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
Jack Welch
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
Taylor Swift -
There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
Vanessa Bayer -
Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
Camryn Manheim -
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Dalai Lama -
With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
C. C. H. Pounder -
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
Leigh Hunt
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Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.
Joe Manganiello -
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner -
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban -
The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
Elaine Sciolino