J. J. Abrams Quotes

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

J. J. Abrams

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I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

Megan Fox

SadBeautifulExperiencePeopleMe

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

John Lewis

GoodWomenPowerMenPushYou

Sundance is incredible and has been very important for my career as a filmmaker, but it's also not the only route to success. There are a ton of great movies that don't get in and go on and do wonderfully.

Matthew Heineman

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You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.

Tracy Reese

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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict

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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

FoodBrokenPromisesMade

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jose Bergamin

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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur

GoodBadHimMakeJustGeneral

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

Donna Douglas

PeopleDoorReal EstateThinkDoing

I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.

Doreen Cronin

TimeYouMoreAlwaysThingsKids

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Deborah Norville

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Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.

Christine Tsai

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