Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.

Jim Webb

TodayServiceBetterPoliticalTwist

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

Melania Trump

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My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

Angela Bassett

LifeMeMomThinkMy LifeYou

I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.

Robert Whittaker

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In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Rudolf Carnap

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I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

Rutger Hauer

WorkLiveHateMeEgoStory

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

Lorrie Moore

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For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.

Jasmine Guinness

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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

Anne Enright

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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arthur Rimbaud

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What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it's subtle and great to wear for any person at any time.

Shawn Mendes

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