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By harnessing our teammates' unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe.
— Dennis Muilenburg
Tags: tomorrow, passion, change, positive
Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.
— Genesis P-Orridge
Tags: afford, should, expensive, you
You know me: I'm always down to be brutally honest.
— Jeffree Star
Tags: always, know, you, me
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
— Ernest Lawrence
Tags: scientific, environment, progress
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
— Mark Twain
Tags: language, books
It's easy to hurl abuse at those awards ceremonies like the Oscars and all that, which we tend to do. We tend to vent our anger at things which we feel are unjust or undeserving. But when you're the recipient, it makes it a lot different.
— Jeff Beck
Tags: like, feel, anger, you
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
— Gertrude Stein
Tags: teaches, lesson, history
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
— Dick Schaap
Tags: writing, place, mistakes, think
The function of pop music is to be consumed.
— Pierre Boulez
Tags: music
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
— Gordon Parks
Tags: people, me, work, life
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
— N. K. Jemisin
Tags: stop, go, brain, thinking
I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
— Patti Scialfa
Tags: emotional, way, woman, you
I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.
— Katherine Moennig
Tags: normal, find, like, me
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
— Annie Proulx
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
— Kiefer Sutherland
Tags: worry, movies, like, performance
I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
— Merry Clayton
Tags: how, know, church, me
There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
— Bayard Taylor
Tags: strangers, honesty, people, confidence
One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
— Mark Roberts
Tags: always, singing, wind, music
Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
— Anonymous
Tags: happiness
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
— David Frum
Tags: because, economic, country, situation
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