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Sam Abell

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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break...
NEIL GAIMAN Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. B...
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COLLEEN HOOVER Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS He hates mental mistakes. Errors, you're going to make those mistakes every day. But the fact that y...
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JESSE HODGSON Level 3 is working with their customers and Cogent needs to work with its customers. If Cogent wants...
JENNIFER DAUMLER I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
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TED WILLIAMS I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I mak...
AARON RUELL Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And fo...
JOHN SEXTON The first two or three plays he was in I was about ready to reach out and choke him. After the game,...
ROY WILLIAMS This gives us a chance to reach out and help vets make claims with the VA for disabilities and get h...
BILL WALKER I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or someth...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE These technological amenities will get students ready to step out of college and right into the busi...
JUANITA HAYES There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
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FIONA APPLE Man knows what he wants but he just doesn't know what he needs. Woman knows what she needs but she j...
ALI-AZRI HASSAN People get mad with 8-week-old puppies for making mistakes because they don't realize this.
BRIAN KILCOMMONS Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything...
MOLLY IVINS Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
RUDY RUCKER They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR We could very well get back into the playoffs with this caliber team. We're going to be young, and t...
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN You can't make mistakes on them and we made some mistakes. (The Pistons) were desperate. We didn't h...
CUTTINO MOBLEY Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
PEARL BAILEY I'm a Republican. Let's go out into the world market and try to get a better deal for Americans,
TIM PAWLENTY You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, yo...
BILL GOLDBERG I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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FIONA APPLE The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'.
GERMANY KENT Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through ...
CARL HONORE Three glaring mistakes cost us the three goals. You're going to make mistakes in a hockey game. They...
BOB MOTZKO Their press really hurt us. We just made too many mistakes. We are getting close to where we want to...
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GEORGE ORWELL I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
NIALL HORAN That's what the preseason's for, to get all the mistakes and the funk out.
CARSON PALMER We're cramped and stressed right now, but we'll figure out a way to make it work, ... It's been an i...
GREG OLSON But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people....
WILLIAM LANDAY Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the goal,
MARY ALICE I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardnes...
MOTHER TERESA It's over, Sam. Finally."
"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
MICHAEL GRANT The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your s...
JOHN UPDIKE The governor has said 'no' to our rights, and so our community needs to turn out and say 'no' to him...
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As we wave our goodbyes,
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AARON FULTZ It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.
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NEIL GAIMAN Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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RAY NAGIN I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and ...
JANE MCGONIGAL As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKS I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothi...
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APURVA GAGLANI Don't go out in the world and get chased by monsters and madmen. Don't make enemies.
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CHARLES WILSON We try to get them out into the world, face-to-face.
LUCINDA HITCHNER Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
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SAM ABELL As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and sho...
SAM ABELL Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of vis...
SAM ABELL There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for ...
SAM ABELL My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar o...
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SAM ABELL My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
SAM ABELL Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to p...
SAM ABELL Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this ...
SAM ABELL It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
SAM ABELL I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie...
SAM ABELL Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
EDMUND PHELPS It's our creative outlet and a celebration of all the hard work we've done all year... mainly for th...
DANIELLA CARANCI You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothi...
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
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RICHARD ABELL We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.
GARY ABELL That's why we're doing what we're doing.
GARY ABELL Every county gets money under this plan.
GARY ABELL What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 1...
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DON ABELL Family programs tend to be the ones the green-eyeshade people go after first.
CHARLES ABELL I hope, that in the end, we acknowledge that we should be advisers, mentors, teachers (and) coaches....
CHARLES ABELL It is mostly art; not so much science. It is, above all, influencing human behavior.
CHARLES ABELL My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
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SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
SAM KEAN The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
SAM HUNTINGTON My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
SAM HUNTINGTON In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t...
SAM HUNTINGTON I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
SAM HUNTINGTON I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di...
SAM HUNT Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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