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There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.
Written by Peter Benchley
The first thing I remember when I moved to a school in the suburbs was, 'My gosh, all these books!' The classroom and school had a library; I'd never seen so many books in my life! It was something we didn't have in the township.
Written by Petina Gappah
I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
Written by Salar Kamangar
Being old is such a treat!
Written by Shirley MacLaine
I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.
Written by Steve Martin
The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
Written by Emily Watson
Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
Written by Elizabeth Berg
I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'
Written by Jermain Defoe
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Written by Walter Gropius
I just want people to hear me and my story.
Written by Juicy J
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Written by Buddha
We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
Written by Aml Ameen
Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.
Written by Jon Krakauer
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Written by Stephan Jenkins
I don't think I could survive in cold places.
Written by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.
Written by Megalyn Echikunwoke
Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.
Written by Rivers Cuomo
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
Written by Leonard Slatkin
The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.
Written by Edwin Meese
Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.
Written by Cole Younger
I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.
Written by Brad Goreski
Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.
Written by Astrid S
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Written by Mary Kay Ash
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.
Written by Nikola Tesla
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Written by Alexander Pope
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
Written by Dennis Lehane
I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
Written by Olivia Newton-John
Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
Written by Mary Doria Russell
We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.
Written by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
Written by Jonny Lang

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