Adina Porter Quotes

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

Adina Porter

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HappySucceedYouKnowNeedSure

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Maya Lin

NatureWarWorldStudyingStarted

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Maya Angelou

MotherGratefulIntelligencePeople

When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.

Steve Largent

LifeChangeFootballThinkYouPlay

I didn't look up to only pop stars, but I did look up to Adele, Amy Winehouse, Grimes, Robyn, Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, M.I.A., Coldplay, Keane, and more.

Sigrid

StarsLookMoreUpOnlyPop

I think true wilderness can still be found, but it's hard to reach and dangerous when you get there, which is probably why it still exists.

Michelle Paver

WildernessThinkReachYouDangerous

One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

BestRootsFriendsShootingGuy

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

FutureRiskFragileEconomicGlobal

Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pressures to bear on the Fed. In terms of openness about our financial accounts, we are extensively audited.

Janet Yellen

FinancialPoliticalBearAuditBring

When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

Christine Pelosi

BlamePresidentCaliforniaQuick

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

Ryan Howard

BaseballBetterGoalCreatePlay

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Richard Avedon

AdvertisingHigh HeelsLegsHigh

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

Mario Vargas Llosa

LifeLiveImaginationBelieveBetter

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