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Robert Mondavi Quotes

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

Robert Mondavi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1913 - May 16, 2008

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Great Me World Impossible Giving

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Jim Crace

Wise Person Narrative Ancient

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

Poetry Results Fast Why Expect Poem

I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.

Andra Day

Style Woman Kind Street Industrial

If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes.

John Lithgow

Fun People Me Enjoy Wrong Stop

If you choose to do things that you are passionate about, you will not only do them better, but most importantly, you'll be a significantly happier person.

Robert Kraft

Better You Choose Person Passionate

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

Steven Strait

Great New York Growing Up Place New

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

Tony Rock

Personality Doing You Jokes Just

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Rob Sheffield

Voice Edge Innocent Young Stage

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Mohsin Hamid

Life Live Poetry Sense Deal Decent

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

Michael McCaul

Think She Policy Because Weaknesses

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Thinking Career Cancer Options

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Judy Biggert

Marriage Woman Man Me Believe First