I've always wanted to try things for myself before passing a judgment on them.
Peter Brook
Recitation: by Male by Female
The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.
John Muir
GrowthWorldWoodsDistanceGlory
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
Maya Angelou
FireHumilityThinkHellYouRun
I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
Spencer Dryden
BeingArtistsBohemianAroundTypes
Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
FamilyMotherTimeInterviewSeem
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
Roger Andrew Taylor
TigerFinishSixSevenMonthsTook
I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.
Ron Johnson
FreedomLibertyWantSideErr
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
Claire Denis
GoodFriendMotherHeroInfluence
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
Chuck Close
WorkLearningMeRecognitionPlace
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
CourageHalfwayCowardiceExcess
I used to have long hair and get it done every two weeks, and it was never worth it to me. I would just walk out of the salon and put it in a ponytail anyway.
Syd
WalkMeHairLongLong HairWorth
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
Peter Fonda
BusinessSocietyMoralityAlways
There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.
Peter Levine
FlowBeenEbbEnterpriseDistributed
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