Wallace Stegner Quotes
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.Wallace Stegner
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes -
I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
Ida Lupino -
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head -
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
Manuel Moroun -
I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
Action Bronson
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Don't kill the golden goose.
Malcolm Mclaren -
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
Albert Camus -
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Mary Wortley Montagu -
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
Prince Andrew -
I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson
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These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.
Darren Aronofsky -
Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.
Crystal Gayle -
Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.
Gene Saks -
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.
John Battelle -
The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.
Jaden Smith -
Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.
Moshe Vardi
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Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.
Menachem Begin -
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
B. B. King -
Please don’t go away from me. We can work it out- whatever it may be, girl.
Boyz II Men -
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
Wallace Stegner