I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.
John Dingell
GrudgesCarryPolish
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
Marvin Olasky
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There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
Janine Benyus
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If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
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I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
Dick Cavett
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I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.
Douglas Booth
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Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Dean Wareham
LifeMusicWaitWorldYearYou
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
Periander
AdversityProsperityPrudentModerate
No one cares about your ideas. They're not going to come knocking on your door looking for ideas. They're going to want some concrete evidence that you have the potential to serve them or give them value for money. So that's my advice: write your spec scripts, no matter what. They're essential as a calling card, even if they don't get produced.
Shane Black
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The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
Thomas Piketty
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