Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

John McCarthy

PeopleSmokingMoreThanMore People

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

Jeff Dunham

ThinkBadBackBoyBecomeOut

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.

Jeff Koons

WorkArtBelievePossibilitiesYou

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo

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You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

Sloan Wilson

YouGoGoingWorkaholicFarUnless

Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won.

Mary H.K. Choi

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Eating well is really important to me. That means having balanced meals, never missing a meal, never skipping a meal, having a balanced diet, and never doing anything extreme.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.

Joshua Malina

CommunitySchoolDoingKindActor

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

Jon Evans

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Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.

Dmitry Medvedev

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I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

Chris Hadfield

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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow

ManWorldLongWillForeverLast

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