Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

Anthony Ray Hinton

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LivePrisonYearYouFindKnow

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

Joe Sakic

YouHealthyPlayingStayPerforming

I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard.

Megan Fox

ProveRetardHavingResent

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

Srikumar Rao

JobEnergyPotentialGoalManager

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Skeet Ulrich

SmallFarmingOutsideUpTownNorth

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Toru Takemitsu

MusicTeacherLightShadowI Am

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Robert Frost

HeartGreatNeverGenerousTender

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

PowerTimeActionChanceForward

I feel like Canada is really good at nurturing their artists, and America's not so good at that. The artistic community is so important to a country.

LP

GoodCommunityFeelAmericaCanada

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.

Joss Whedon

PeopleFindPossibleNormalWhere

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell

HappinessTragedyEmotionsUnderstand

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Brian Behlendorf

WorkTryingOpenOutSourceBeen

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

Anne Tyler

DinnerRestaurantWriteHomesick

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