Arthur C. Brooks Quotes
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.Arthur C. Brooks
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
Victoria Pratt -
I am who I am.
J. B. Pritzker -
We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
Damon Lindelof -
Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
Iggy Pop -
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt
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I seemed to have been born reading.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King -
I don't think there is much American music.
Harrison Birtwistle -
We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein -
You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
Forest Whitaker -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli -
I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
Flume -
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
Tavi Gevinson -
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey -
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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We didn’t care if people stared;We’d make out in a crowd somewhere.Somebody’d tell us to get a room;It’s hard to believe that was me and you.Now we keep saying that we’re OK.But I don’t want to settle for good not great.I miss the way that it felt back then; I wanna feel that way again.
Brad Paisley -
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
Chris Stapleton -
I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?
Lisa Jackson -
I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.
Jacques Ellul -
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
Lois McMaster -
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
Arthur C. Brooks