August Wilson Quotes

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• The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Actions
  • Active

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • Game
  • Understanding

• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Together
  • Better

• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Ignorant

• I'm not picky, quite honestly.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Honestly
  • Quite
  • Picky

• If you give a party, you better give it right.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • You
  • Party
  • Better

• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Positive
  • Lead
  • Pregnancy

• That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Future
  • Past
  • Best

• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Up
  • Listening

• You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Mind
  • Nice
  • Desire

• I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!

  

  Anat Cohen
  • School
  • High
  • Waiting

• I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Singing
  • Lyrics
  • Heartfelt

• I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

  

  Mario Lopez
  • Hope
  • Proud

• I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Help

• I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • School
  • Mother
  • Hair

• I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Real
  • Romantic

• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Harmony

• After receiving strong encouragement from numerous people that I respect and admire, discussing with my family, and seriously considering it, I have decided not to run for the 12th Congressional District, a seat currently held by a man I admire very much, Representative Jerry Costello.

  

  Ann Callis
  • People
  • Family
  • Strong

• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.

  

  August Wilson