Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

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HopeBeginningStartYouDarkGoing

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

Jeff Beck

WorkHeartPlayForgetFirstHours

Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.

Michael Hayden

IntelligenceFreeHelpInformation

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Tony Curtis

LifeGoodDepressionSayingFriends

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.

Travis Kalanick

WorkDayPeopleWorldDriveThink

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

Monica Seles

WomenStrongEnjoyPowerfulPlay

I won my first singing award with 'Auliya.'

Armaan Malik

SingingAwardFirstWon

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

Austan Goolsbee

SurviveWashingtonKindStarting

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

Ashley Monroe

HopeMyselfWomanI AmGrowing Up

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

Allison Janney

MePlayKnowSaidAbleHe

I don't really think of myself as the sporty type. But I'll have a go at anything.

Shaun Evans

MyselfThinkGoAnythingReally

A nightmare would be when somebody is trying to be funnier than everyone else. And you've got a group scene or two-person scene, and one person decides, 'I'm the funny in this,' and bulldozes everyone else, and they make sure they're the reason everyone loves the scene.

Scott Adsit

FunnyTryingYouPersonGroupSure

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Thor Heyerdahl

StrengthSacrificePeopleUniform

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