Maria Semple Quotes

The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

Maria Semple

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LifeLovePeopleReadingThinking

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

Jim Cantalupo

AdvertisingSellingGoProductsKids

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

Joe Biden

CaringPeopleNeverNot CaringBeen

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

Jo Bonner

StormSupportPresidentRiceAlabama

There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

Jenny Han

PowerHeroYourselfBelieveYou

Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque.

Michael Buble

LovePerfumeIngredientsI Love

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

Smokey Robinson

LifeWalkSchoolLawyersStreetGuy

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

BeautifulMoneyBelieveSexBuy

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

Russell Smith

AloneGreatLookStatisticsI Can

The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.

Luke Davies

MeMovingMatterWhereOnlyWhose

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

Lucy Walker

LoveGreatBelievePlaceMovies

I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.

Chris Sacca

I AmHardRightLeaveThingsGoing

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

Cliff Robertson

BadGoMoviesNothingFilmBeen

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