Maria Mitchell Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine -
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Sam Harris -
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
Warren Farrell -
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara De Angelis -
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson -
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Hafez -
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday -
I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
Vince Vaughn -
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
Venus Williams -
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
Vince McMahon
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
Edgar Ramirez -
I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
D'Angelo -
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Camille Paglia -
For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather -
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady -
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen
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I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
James Gray -
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
Meher Baba -
God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.
Edward Bouverie Pusey -
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
Wendy Kopp -
One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.
John Zorn -
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell