Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes
I think the country will get behind someone who comes from a working-class background, who truly epitomizes the American Dream.Carlos Lopez-Cantera
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Walter F. Ulmer -
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
Mal Peet -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
Olivia Williams -
Music is my balance... center of my life.
Mandy Patinkin -
Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
Samuel Larsen
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
Ira Glass -
I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
Joanne Rowling -
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
Larry Brilliant -
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
Warren Rudman -
People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
Halima Aden -
And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
Patricia Clarkson
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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino -
O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
Rabindranath Tagore -
There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.
Kelly Price -
George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
Barbara Mikulski -
I think the country will get behind someone who comes from a working-class background, who truly epitomizes the American Dream.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera