Doug Stanton Quotes

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

Doug Stanton

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You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Steffi Graf

RespectThinkArroganceYouLose

You don't have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.

Sonu Nigam

GirlMomentQualityYourselfYou

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Roy Harper

MeDirectionAlwaysDownfallGoing

I'm a '90s music kid.

Mat Kearney

MusicKid

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.

Mary Roach

FoodMindDriveYouDarkSilent

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

Mike Nichols

MeUnhappyMakeEverybodyNightmare

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Liz Smith

RedDressGossipNewsAheadJust

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

GoodChildrenTimeArchitectureYou

With neoliberalism discredited and austerity failed, we need to rewrite the rules of the economy once again. But this time in the right way. We need rules that focus on long-term economic growth, and the only kind of sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

Joseph Stiglitz

GrowthTimeFocusRulesProsperity

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

Dean Ambrose

TimePeopleEndLongEnduranceTwo

What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are basically invisible. And when we do show up, it's largely a part of comedies as carictatures to service a joke that's at the expense of the character.

Wilson Cruz

CharacterServicePeopleMeJokeUp

When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls.

Syd

MusicProducerStartedJustMade

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