Robert J. Fisher Quotes

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

Robert J. Fisher

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WorkSchoolWriteHardWellEnglish

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

Jenna Marbles

FearUglyMeYouBornGood-Looking

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Maya Angelou

SayingTraditionTalkingMeaningGot

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Maurice Maeterlinck

GreatEventWhoInnerThoseSummon

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Andy Serkis

YourselfPerformanceEnergyMaskYou

Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters.

Tsai Ing-wen

WomenTodayPoliticsWomanThink

There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

Tommy Lee

LegendProfessionalThreeActorWay

They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

Roberto Clemente

AmericanSomeoneYouLookSaidSay

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.

Matisyahu

WinterNowConnectedChristmasNever

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough - and I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.

Lorraine Hansberry

LifeLoveGoodLiveBeautifulWish

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

Juan Williams

HopeMoneyNew YorkPeopleThink

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Jordan Peterson

LifeEyesResponsibilityAcceptOpen

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

Jose Andres

LoveGoodGreatCoffeeAmerican

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