Dana Spiotta Quotes

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Dana Spiotta

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I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.

Jerry Della Femina

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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.

Meir Kahane

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If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently.

Steve Forbert

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That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

Tom Hanks

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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

Douglas Coupland

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I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.

Drake Bell

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We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Donald Norman

TeacherImpactMotivationKnow

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.

Colin Angle

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I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

Clay Aiken

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What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

Brian J. Smith

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Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Arthur E. Morgan

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