Iain Banks Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
Randi Weingarten -
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney -
People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
Patricia Hewitt -
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
Eddie Trunk
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
Naveen Jain -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones -
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Abraham Verghese -
I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.
Karen Elson
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
Jaclyn Smith -
Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
Dak Prescott -
I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
Jackson Browne -
For me, fashion is not about reality.
Carine Roitfeld
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
Olga Kurylenko -
I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'
Jeffrey Tambor -
Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.
Alan Nunnelee -
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
Iain Banks