Don McLean Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
Jack Reynor -
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams -
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
Dan Rather -
The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
Tara Lipinski -
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
Ted Williams
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
Saint Bernard -
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
Walter Dean Myers -
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown -
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
Patricia Clarkson -
I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
Mandy Moore -
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
Ian Frazier -
Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
Tadashi Yanai -
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
Gary Shteyngart -
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Earl Warren -
Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
Gary Oldman -
The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
Adam Ferguson
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
Orson Scott Card -
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Barton Gellman -
Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them...they may be forced to die by them.
Dan Simmons -
Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.
Beverly Cleary -
I approach every role with the same commitment because I'm being paid for it. To not do so would be unethical.
Anupam Kher -
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
Don McLean