Wallace Stegner Quotes
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
Dan Bartlett -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
Yael Stone -
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman -
In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
Olivia Colman -
An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
Gary Hamel -
Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira -
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
Oliver Tambo
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater -
I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
Naveen Jain -
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
Jack Kevorkian -
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba -
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
Fiona Apple -
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
Damien Chazelle
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Stop worrying about being your child's buddy. You are the only one in the world with the primary responsibility of giving your child what he needs, not what he wants.
Chip Ingram -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul Haggis -
I'm very humble.
Zach LaVine -
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
Wallace Stegner