Mary Cheney Quotes

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Mary Cheney

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YourselfBossBetterNewsAlways

I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.

John M. Grunsfeld

PracticeSpaceMeMeditationKind

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Matt Taibbi

BusinessTimeMoneyBackSituation

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Spike Lee

GoodMusicGreatCulturePeopleTry

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Sonia Sotomayor

GoodLiveSchoolYouPoorKids

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

Chen Guangbiao

BrotherSisterOldAlwaysYears

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

Chuck Close

ArtFindMirrorsUpsetOutArtists

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Bruce Vilanch

AboutWereSoldWrittenPitches

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

Alfred Hershey

FunNothingAnythingExperiments

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

Pramila Jayapal

MotherWordsMeAppreciateLanguage

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

Paul Weller

MusicAloneTimeThoughtOverStill

Actually, acting and hosting shows just happened on the way, and I will do it 'til it lasts and then concentrate on writing.

Shenaz Treasury

WritingActingWillWayHappened

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

Ryan Stiles

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