Wonderful Quotes - Page 39

• We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Thinking, Generations, Gone

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• There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Jobs, School, Lovely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

  Lena Headey

  Broken, Actors, Chance

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  Barry Hannah

  Fun, Writing, Jumping

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• My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Father, Opinion, Wonderful Experience

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• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Long, People, Car

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• I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Fun, Husband, Careers

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• I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Baby, Musical, World

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• When I'm in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We've just been laughing all day today. In work, I believe that you really need to choose people that you get along with because work is life, so you may as well enjoy your time. I'm lucky. I have great people around me, and we laugh all day.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  New York, Team, Believe

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• Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

  Edward Bach

  Personality, Individuality, Single Person

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• My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Wise, Writing, Trying

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• It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

  Akshay Kumar

  Hero, Tired, Voice

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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Son, Rich, Core

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass.

  Bill Hicks

  Sex, Miracle, Ass

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• Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

  David Knopfler

  Views, Week, Selling

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• I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

  Emir Kusturica

  Cutting, Wizards, Film

  "I will not cut my film" by Emir Kusturica, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2005.

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• Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Eye, Men, Two

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• The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Hate, People, Rabbits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

  Lee Meriwether

  Way, Roles, Schedules

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• Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.

  Mindy McCready

  Princess, Men, Roger

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• There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Thinking, Cells

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• I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

  Victoria Moran

  Perfect, Eating, Plant

  "The Vibrant Vegan Life of an Obesity Survivor" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

  Richard O'Brien

  Play, Intellectual, Roles

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  Tea Obreht

  Encouragement, Taken, Thinking

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