Ruth Ozeki Quotes

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

Ruth Ozeki

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A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Jim Bridenstine

PeopleControlMeetingsSayOpen

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

Jim Harrison

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There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.

Jim Mattis

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When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

Joe Jackson

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Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.

John Barrasso

EnergyReasonMasterResource

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Max Weber

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News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

Robert Krulwich

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

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I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

Jeff Dunham

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If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

Roustam Tariko

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.

Mickalene Thomas

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