Carly Simon Quotes
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
Pastor Maldonado -
I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
Carlos Ponce -
I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
F. Gary Gray -
I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Dalai Lama -
I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
Taron Egerton -
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
Jack Kilby
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
Dan Marino -
Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
Ban Ki-moon -
You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
J. B. Smoove -
I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
Jack Osbourne -
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
Hanna Rosin -
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
Camilla Lackberg
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono -
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
Hallie Ephron -
If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
Queen Latifah -
I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard -
Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt
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Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.
Ira Gershwin -
I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.
Carmine Gallo -
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.
Russell Baker -
It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
Bidzina Ivanishvili -
Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
Akbar Ganji -
I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
Carly Simon