Robert Collier Quotes

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Robert Collier

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OpportunityServiceStartYouLook

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

John Doerr

GrowthRespectIntellectualContent

I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.

Jeff Zucker

ValueThinkUnderstandingYouNews

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

Jean Pigozzi

WorkPeopleLawyerClothesYouMore

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Michael Behe

TogetherSimpleStructureBasic

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

Stephen J. Dubner

LifeAdultWholeBeenWriter

My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.

Stefano Gabbana

LoveWomanI AmChildMeBaby

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

PoetryRestReadingLibraryPlan

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

Lorna Luft

OpportunityLos AngelesMoreCall

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

Joseph Brodsky

CareLanguageDutyWriteWellOnly

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

Christian Kane

MusicTruthYouCountryTell

I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.

Colm Toibin

GoodHomeYourselfPeopleThinkYou

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Brad Pitt

BornOklahomaI Was Born

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