Gary Shteyngart Quotes

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Gary Shteyngart

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ChangeTimeRevolutionTelephoneBig

Let's start spreading work experience and opportunities a little wider so that the photographers, writers, and TV producers of tomorrow are drawn from a broader section of society.

Robert Rinder

WorkExperienceTomorrowStartTV

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Robert Kiyosaki

ProblemsLegalEscapeWayFraudHe

I love the role of Ripley.

Sigourney Weaver

LoveRoleI Love

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Tony Visconti

LifeFatherGreatJobNew YorkNew

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

Rodrigo Duterte

SickGoEveryoneGets

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

ExperienceSpaceMeLookingEarth

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

Phil Lesh

PeopleHurtSeriouslyTopRoofPark

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Ric Keller

WillFloridaActMilesOffDrilling

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

Martin Freeman

PeopleMePerformanceThoughtActing

Mandela was true to himself, to his people and his principles. He sacrificed everything because he was prepared to be true to his ideals. You can relate to him whether you come from Manchester or Soweto.

Justin Chadwick

PeopleYouBe TrueTruePrinciples

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda

MistakesAttentionWantGetKids

As a professional snowboarder, my livelihood obviously depends on snow. And for me, traveling around the world, chasing the snow, I see the effects of climate change first hand. You can tell the difference.

Gretchen Bleiler

ChangeSnowMeWorldYouHand

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