Jane Austen Quotes
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
Edgar Wright -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
Harmony Korine -
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung -
The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
Dan Shechtman -
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Harold E. Varmus
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence -
I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
Natasha Trethewey -
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
Ralph Hall -
I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
Harmony Korine -
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren -
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
Irvin D. Yalom -
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
Pat Conroy -
A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
Warren Farrell -
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Lady Gaga -
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
Larry King -
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
Katey Sagal
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Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.
Fred Hoyle -
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang -
Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger -
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
David Dinkins -
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
Ang Lee -
I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
Jane Austen