Maryanne Wolf Quotes

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

Maryanne Wolf

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OpportunityReadingYouKnowMore

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Joely Richardson

FreedomResponsibilityOverFiction

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

Angus Deaton

ChangeFuturePeopleWorldPoverty

It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Jeff Dunham

HumorAmazingSayNeverHumanOut

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

Sienna Miller

WomenBusinessDoingWantHard

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.

Roger McGuinn

MusicListeningHonorClothesTrying

In yoga, you hold the positions, whereas in dance, you're constantly moving, extending, reaching through the legs and arms, which helps build long, lean muscles as opposed to shorter, tighter ones.

Mary Helen Bowers

DanceMovingLongYouBuildLegs

Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.

Monica Crowley

EnemyTakeGiveInchHeYard

God blesses us all with different views and perspectives and levels of influence and power.

LL Cool J

GodPowerInfluenceUsDifferent

We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.

Domenico Dolce

WorkBelieveBrandPlease Everyone

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

Diana Lopez

ConfidenceBestTrainingBrotherMe

I don't think I'm all that twisted in my life. I'm not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.

Doug Liman

LifeThinkMy LifeYouKnowOut

I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.

Deborah K. Ross

WomenI AmPoliticalWayOffice

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