Alissa Quart Quotes

I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level, they might have done their best by us, but I think, in terms of the reality principle, maybe less so.

Alissa Quart

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The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.

Jimmie Walker

SorryNowSayRightReasonEnemies

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicBeautifulWorldBlackApple

One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.

John Burroughs

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Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

Maya Hawke

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Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

Melanie Lynskey

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The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Robert Rodriguez

ChallengeDoingEasyWorthYouKnow

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Jeff Bridges

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'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

Stephen Karam

MasterpieceNeverCherryManyToo

My one regret is that I didn't win a trophy with Tottenham, despite us being a strong team who played good, attractive football.

Luka Modric

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Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.

Chris Sacca

FreedomChoicesNowMoreCheapMuch

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

Brian Moore

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I work very hard in the gym. Sometimes, I come home very late, around 1 A.M., but still I go and work out at the gym. I don't ever stop.

Arjun Kapoor

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