Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone -
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
Florentijn Hofman -
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo -
The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
Sam Graves -
In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
Adam Peaty -
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
Dan Quisenberry
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
Patricia Richardson -
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom -
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
Fatos Nano -
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
Abraham Verghese -
I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
Omari Hardwick
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Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
Constantin Brancusi -
Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler -
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.
James Callaghan -
The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
Jack McBrayer -
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.
Carmen Dell'Orefice