Wallace Stegner Quotes
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.Wallace Stegner
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
Eddi Reader -
It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
Bebe Rexha -
My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
Cam Newton -
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
Nanette Lepore -
Say yes to everything.
Aaron Swartz -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug -
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Edsger Dijkstra -
Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
Viktor Orban
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In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.
Bernie Sanders -
I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.
Lynn Coady -
Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
Aubrey McClendon -
History is past politics, and politics is present history.
Edward Augustus Freeman -
I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
Hal Sparks -
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
Wallace Stegner