Cynthia Weil Quotes

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

Cynthia Weil

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BuildingYouHouseNervousBuild

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

Jim Talent

WorkPeopleDownQuitReasonGone

I initially became a trainer in 2002 to help people shape their bodies, to help them look the way they wanted to look. This would reflect the way I was living. I was focusing on the exterior. Then in 2003/4, I had a paradigm shift. I started a business for bariatric patients, pre- and post-gastric bypass.

Jessie Pavelka

BusinessPeopleHelpLookLiving

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

John Burroughs

GrowthGreatBirdWiseFreeColor

Football is a game you play with your mind.

Johan Cruyff

FootballMindGameYouPlayYour

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

Andrew Wiles

MindRestNowOverOdyssey

I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard.

Andrew Luck

WorkTimeDayTiredMeTraveled

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

John Stuart Mill

OpinionExerciseOppressionRight

I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know.

Stella McCartney

WomenI AmFashionFeelTryingYou

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

Tu Youyou

DiscoveryCollectiveSuccessful

They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.

Christopher Guest

PeopleSayingGameGolfSwingNever

We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.

Chuck Fleischmann

WarColdDiligenceCold WarBecause

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

Brendan Gleeson

ArtVoiceThinkWordThoughToo

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