Lisa Madigan Quotes

Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.

Lisa Madigan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1966

Topics

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I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

Andrew Whitworth

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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Maya Angelou

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I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'

John Updike

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Because of ignorance, I wasn't a big fan of Marvel. I hadn't read the magazines. They were not as big in Europe as they are in the United States. They're more a part of modern American mythology. I know more about the original Thor than the Marvel Thor.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Being reasonably direct about what you're doing, being comfortable, is the best way to do things.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

Tracy Lawrence

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I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Tony McCoy

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When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

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The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Martin Scorsese

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I love just being home with the kids and, seeing what they do when they're bored and then I just follow.

Julia Hartz

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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

Jason Bateman

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Clara Barton

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