Jim Valvano Quotes
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.Jim Valvano
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy -
I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
Rachael Taylor -
Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
Ted Danson -
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln -
I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
Cam Newton -
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
Barry Jenkins
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
Orlando Bloom -
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
Raghuram Rajan -
It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
G-Eazy -
I really have the American dream licked.
Ted Nugent -
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
Langston Hughes
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
Karl Rove -
I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.
Kangana Ranaut -
I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.
Finn Jones -
When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.
Vicki Lawrence -
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
Aaron Ruell -
We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
Gavin MacLeod
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I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.
J. R. Smith -
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
Danny Boyle -
My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
R.Tripp Evans -
It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.
Vladimir Putin -
Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh... maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.
Alison Bechdel -
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.
Jim Valvano