Tom Waits Quotes

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

Tom Waits

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The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.

Jeffrey Toobin

TransformationCountryJudgesTwo

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Andy Hobsbawm

GreatCreativityPowerfulRationally

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

JobMeWorldThinkNewGrey

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove

KnowledgeKeySocialMobility

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

Stefan Edberg

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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Tom Brokaw

GoodBusinessContractFickleOnly

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.

Ruthie Ann Miles

PerspectiveMeChanceStoryPlay

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

Mohammad Azharuddin

PatienceYouFallPlaceInfinite

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things.

Liz Goldwyn

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I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.

Johnny Flynn

PeopleMeThinkActingAnythingHow

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Donald Trump

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When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

Brian Chesky

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