Priscilla Ahn Quotes

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

Priscilla Ahn

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I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

Matthew Pearl

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My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Jeff Greene

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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Stephen Gardiner

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'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

Dr. Seuss

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For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?

Claire Messud

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If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

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The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

Scott Turow

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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

Thomas Bangalter

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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

Norman McLaren

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When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

Ridley Scott

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But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

Richard Masur

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