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Search ResultsFound 100 quotes matching your search: (limited to first 100 results.)  Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? Author: Abdul Kalam
| | Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. Author: Alan Cranston
| | A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. Author: Alan Perlis
| | In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
| | The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
| | The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Author: Aldous Huxley
| | Nobody sets out to make a bad record. Author: Alex Van Halen
| | I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. Author: Andrea Martin
| | I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment. Author: Angie Stone
| | There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. Author: Anne Campbell
| | Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. Author: Arne Jacobsen
| | What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
| | I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now. Author: Bill Mumy
| | You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. Author: Bill Sienkiewicz
| | It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves. Author: Bjork
| | I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Author: Bob Geldof
| | By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. Author: Brian Ferneyhough
| | In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. Author: Brian Ferneyhough
| | Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat. Author: Bruce Barton
| | If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. Author: Bruce Barton
| | In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. Author: Bruce Beresford
| | People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. Author: Candice Bergen
| | Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. Author: Chad Smith
| | Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. Author: Charles Evans Hughes
| | I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act. Author: Chow Yun-Fat
| | I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. Author: Chris Lowe
| | I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. Author: Christine Lahti
| | Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. Author: Christopher Eccleston
| | I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work. Author: Craig Johnston
| | Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow. Author: Dan Lipinski
| | I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. Author: David McCullough
| | On film sets, people get put down in public a lot. Author: David Warner
| | I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit. Author: Debbie Reynolds
| | I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad. Author: Devon Sawa
| | Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things. Author: Diane Sawyer
| | It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. Author: Dinah Maria Mulock
| | Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present. Author: Doc Severinsen
| | We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything. Author: Don Bluth
| | Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money. Author: Donald Trump
| | Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. Author: Doug Coupland
| | Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. Author: Douglas Wilson
| | To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one. Author: Edward Walker
| | No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. Author: Elihu Root
| | People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| | My sun sets to raise again. Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| | I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that. Author: Elizabeth Pena
| | Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities. Author: Elton Gallegly
| | I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets. Author: Ernst Zundel
| | It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard. Author: Eva Marie Saint
| | Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. Author: Evita Peron
| | Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. Author: F. Murray Abraham
| | I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. Author: Famke Janssen
| | The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. Author: Felix Adler
| | The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it. Author: Francesca Annis
| | If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place. Author: Francis Crick
| | I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult. Author: Gary Cole
| | The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Author: Gaston Bachelard
| | Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. Author: Georg Simmel
| | Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. Author: George A. Moore
| | There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it. Author: George C. Scott
| | I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. Author: George Clooney
| | The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing. Author: Geri Halliwell
| | In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy! Author: Glenn Danzig
| | To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. Author: Gregory Bateson
| | Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court. Author: Helen Wills Moody
| | Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character. Author: Helena Bonham Carter
| | It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
| | There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering. Author: Illeana Douglas
| | I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. Author: J. Milton Hayes
| | Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it. Author: Jack Bowman
| | Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Author: James A. Baldwin
| | Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. Author: James Hillman
| | But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. Author: Jason Alexander
| | The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. Author: Jean Baudrillard
| | It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured. Author: Jeremy Irons
| | A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. Author: Jerry Lewis
| | I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend. Author: Jesse Ventura
| | NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though. Author: Jim Henson
| | Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. Author: Joan D. Vinge
| | Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. Author: John Steinbeck
| | But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. Author: Jose Marti
| | And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. Author: Josef Albers
| | A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. Author: Joseph Addison
| | The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Author: Joseph Addison
Topics: Death | | Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. Author: Joseph Barbera
| | Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. Author: Julie Andrews
| | I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason. Author: Kevin Spacey
| | Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.
| | A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Author: Kurt Lewin
| | The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year. Author: Kyle Schmid
| | Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. Author: Laurence J. Peter
| | At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level. Author: Laurent Fabius
| | And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning. Author: Lee Scott
| | An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. Author: Lion Feuchtwanger
| | It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. Author: Lord Byron
| | A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. Author: Lydia M. Child
| | SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it. Author: Lynette Fromme
| | I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. Author: Lynn Abbey
| | I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Author: Marcus Aurelius
| | We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure. Author: Maria Menounos
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: (limited to first 100 results.) | You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions. Author: Adam Rich
| | And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
| | When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
| | Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. Author: Alan Ladd
| | In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately. Author: Allen Klein
| | When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did. Author: Allen Klein
| | You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. Author: Ann Wilson
| | I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Author: Bernie Ebbers
| | We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business. Author: Bernie Ebbers
| | I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? Author: Brenda Blethyn
| | All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets. Author: David Gill
| | We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets. Author: David Gill
| | The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. Author: David Herbert Lawrence
| | It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. Author: David Korten
| | Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing. Author: David Korten
| | Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Author: Denis Waitley
| | I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films. Author: Dinah Sheridan
| | The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. Author: Dinah Sheridan
| | Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor. Author: Dixie Carter
| | Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets. Author: Eleanor Robson Belmont
| | Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene. Author: Evan Hunter
| | With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate. Author: Frank Keating
| | Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. Author: Gertrude Stein
| | Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. Author: Gustav Stresemann
| | I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. Author: Hamlin Garland
| | That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. Author: Harold Washington
| | It would be nice to really shed the corsets. Author: Helena Bonham Carter
| | I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners. Author: Henry Kravis
| | Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. Author: Henry Miller
| | Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Author: Henry Rollins
| | What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. Author: Hugo Gernsback
| | In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. Author: J. William Fulbright
| | This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets. Author: Jack Abramoff
| | Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies. Author: James F. Byrnes
| | If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat. Author: James Forrestal
| | We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills. Author: James Talent
| | As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. Author: Joe Baca
| | I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. Author: John Glenn
| | After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather. Author: John Hartford
| | Assets are cold. Author: John Kluge
Topics: Short | | Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. Author: John Lubbock
| | Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets. Author: John Lynch
| | Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs. Author: Jonathan Kozol
| | Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. Author: Joyce Grenfell
| | Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. Author: Judith Light
| | The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in. Author: Judith Light
| | We all have our own closets to come out of. Author: Judith Light
| | Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. Author: Kate D. Wiggins
| | Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. Author: Khaleda Zia
| | Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Author: Langston Hughes
| | Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets. Author: Larry Hagman
| | Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. Author: Laurence Olivier
| | In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. Author: Lord Chandos
Topics: Business | | The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. Author: Louis Freeh
| | Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is. Author: Marcy Kaptur
| | In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living. Author: Mark Edwards
| | To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. Author: Martin Feldstein
| | I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all. Author: Martin Scorsese
| | The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. Author: Mary Astell
| | Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. Author: Mary Astell
| | Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. Author: Mary Bono
| | Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. Author: Mary Schmich
| | It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. Author: Matt Lucas
| | Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement. Author: Maurice Strong
| | For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Author: Maxwell Maltz
| | Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. Author: Maxwell Maltz
| | Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. Author: May Sarton
| | There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom. Author: Mel Karmazin
| | I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free. Author: Michael Bay
| | In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier. Author: Michael Connelly
| | Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. Author: Michael Korda
| | Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. Author: Michael LeBoeuf
| | There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it. Author: Michael Pitt
| | I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie. Author: Monica Keena
| | My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. Author: Muhammad Yunus
| | Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. Author: Nat Friedman
| | When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. Author: Nia Vardalos
| | Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. Author: Pat Cash
| | On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets. Author: Patrick J. Kennedy
| | I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. Author: Patrick Stewart
| | Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one. Author: Pervez Musharraf
| | I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. Author: Pete Fountain
| | There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon. Author: Pete Rozelle
| | I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. Author: Philip Guston
| | In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? Author: Philip Guston
| | A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Author: Phyllis Diller
| | Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Author: Pope John Paul II
| | The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second. Author: Ralph Fiennes
| | Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one. Author: Ralph Ransom
| | Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail. Author: Randy Neugebauer
| | The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. Author: Raymond Chandler
| | The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level. Author: Ric Keller
| | The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. Author: Richard Branson
| | Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it. Author: Richard Dean Anderson
| | I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. Author: Richard Donner
| | By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. Author: Richard Russo
| | Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances. Author: Rick Baker
| | My sun sets to rise again. Author: Robert Browning
| | One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Author: Robert Collier
| | The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later. Author: Robert Duncan
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