Mary Pilon Quotes

Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.

Mary Pilon

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LongSteelUpGadgetsThinkersMade

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

Andres Serrano

ArtistNothingWithoutHerMineHis

All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeTimeSpaceMy LifeMission

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Robert Sean Leonard

PeopleDesireGreatestSandboxKevin

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Robert Griffin III

RespectYourselfTalentAttentionUp

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

LiveTimeDieBornWhyRealist

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.

Michael Sata

TimeLongLong TimeAfricaWest

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Luc Ferrari

YouRadioThingsKindsHeardTurned

I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'

Demi Lovato

ThinkHelpSaidRockNeedRight

If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'

Christopher Buckley

SonWinThinkLiteratureSayDead

There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

Ally Condie

LifeBeautifulWorldReadingNothing

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Noam Chomsky

TryingTerrorismOthersMeanKnows

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Morris Chestnut

WantEveryoneTellStoriesPrimarily

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