Jim Valvano Quotes
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
Jim Valvano
Quotes to Explore
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
Baz Luhrmann
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
Karen Black
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
Parker Stevenson
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
Felix Dennis
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I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.
Mary Roach
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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.
Jesmyn Ward
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Bainbridge Colby
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When you sing, play instruments, write&produce and the media portrays you as "singer" but your male colleagues who do the same "musicians".
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir
Of Monsters and Men
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I talked about my family, my family's so important.
Jim Valvano
