Michael Gurian Quotes

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Michael Gurian

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LifeChildrenGreatI AmChildFate

Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends - you know, I'll pronounce 'McDonald's' differently, because it feels right, and that's what I'm used to.

Jenny Zhang

ParentsSpeakFriendsYouKnowSay

I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.

Andrea Mackris

YouCareerHouseWhiteKnowMean

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeChallengeQualityGrowKnow

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

Matthew Perry

FunGameThinkBadDamnWhy

Pilots are not the threat.

John Pistole

ThreatPilots

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

Stella Young

MeDisabilityBirthFortuneLived

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

Steve Prefontaine

PeopleGoRunWatchingOutGive

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert A. Heinlein

LifeAliveIronyOutSupremeAnyone

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

Mike Simpson

TimeBelieveWildernessLongLand

'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.

Little Louie Vega

MusicSoulNew YorkPeopleListening

In this industry, you're so used to heartbreak because nine out of 10 times, you don't get what you want. But, that one out of 10 times, you do and it's just the best feeling in the world.

Josh Lawson

BestWorldYouFeelingWantOut

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

PoetryWildSomethingMustVast

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