Nathaniel Branden Quotes

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

Nathaniel Branden

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TimePeopleMeInterestingRemember

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

Jessica Savitch

MotherBeginningMeHerReporter

'Bad Boys', which Bay made when he was just twenty-eight, having never made a movie before, having done a string of commercials and music videos with artists ranging from Donny Osmond to Meat Loaf, grossed more than $140 million worldwide.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

MusicBadDoneMoreNeverMeat

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

John Singleton

NervousBecomeMoreTensionWorking

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in 'The Big Bang Theory,' for instance, are studs.

Stephen Merchant

HopeMeBattleAmericanWayWit

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Stephen Wolfram

WorkThinkSameProgrammingPretty

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Sophie Winkleman

HurtThoughtExerciseGymGoFoot

My sister taught me how to use my voice, and my brother taught me how to play guitar.

Sigrid

BrotherMeSisterVoiceGuitarPlay

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Rita Dove

PoetrySmallMeasureNothingBecome

I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.

Robin S. Sharma

GoodQualityBelieveBetterBuying

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

Rocco DiSpirito

GreatWorldComebackWineSometimes

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Russell Smith

BrotherPeopleDataYouKnowBig

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Michelle Obama

FearLiveI AmTiredWorldCountry

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