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“That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.”

Knows World Kind Values College Return Investment College Education

Author:Gaston Caperton

“You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.”

Knows Kind Actors Difficult Nice Hot Midst Tubs Hot Tub

Author:Keith Carradine

“My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.”

People Giving Kind Said Real Would Be Guy Dad Scripts Treatment Be Kind My Sister

Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.”

Kind Taste Absolutes Victim Melancholy

Author:Arielle Dombasle

“I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.”

People Thinking Years Kind Different Cases Music Is Chapters Different Peoples

Author:Geoff Downes

“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Different Use Term Accepting Style Involved Band Following Brands Different Peoples

Author:Geoff Downes

“To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.”

Thinking Kind Persons Different Stuff Lines Degrees Foundation Complexes Chords Caps Linear Single Line

Author:Geoff Downes

“I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.”

World Writing Kind Song Results Attention

Author:Iris DeMent

“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.”

Kind Important School Film Opportunity Television Majors Graduates Great Opportunity Film School Northwestern

Author:Richard Donner

“The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.”

Kind Philosophy Problem Political Social Liberty Capitalism Economics Organization Greed Harm Libertarian Arrangements Free Market Capitalism Social Organization

Book:Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.”

Kind Play Character Wanted Mother Capable Tragic Firefly Larger Than Life

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.”

Kind Long Self Dream Culture House Expression Connections Ultimate Be Kind American Dream Consumerism

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.”

Kind Doe Band Normal Opposites Exciting Soundtracks

Author:Tim Gane

“In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.”

Kind Doe Stories Moving Asks Challenges Vision Roles Directors Etc

Author:Lukas Haas

“I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.”

Thinking Kind Stills Be Kind Mum Dork

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.”

People Kind Stills Difficult Sound Research Difficult Times

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.”

Way Kind Hard Feelings Light Night Certain Term Effects Directors Cameras Valuable Commodity Lenses Spades Hard Days Camera Lenses

Author:Michael Patrick Jann

“Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.”

Mind Kind Sometimes Guy Felt Goal Caught Caught Up Other Guys

Author:Cory Lidle

“Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.”

Kind Sometimes Loses Personality Losing Yourself

Author:Julie London

“I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.”

Years Kind Has Beens Found Speak Difficult Careers Six Seven Cracks Nuts Coming Back Seven Years Retired New Car New Career

Author:Julie London

“Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.”

Knows Kind Guy Given Hollywood Credit Borders Truck Sophistication

Author:Cheech Marin

“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.”

Firsts Looks Kind Art Artist Pieces Emotional Intellectual First Time Combination Something New

Author:Cheech Marin

“I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.”

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Author:Tom Paulin

“There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.”

Kind Long Able Differences Internet Walking Degrees Distance Phones Enormous Pockets Google Cheaper Phone Calls Long Distance Pda Riyadh

Author:Thomas Friedman

“That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.”

Kind I Can Home Bits Rounds Holes Squares Peg Square Pegs

Author:Mick Ralphs

“When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.”

People Want Feels Years Kind Children Kids Catholic Guilty My Sister Rabbits Catholic Family

Author:Marge Schott

“There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.”

Needs Kind Has Beens Country Ability Space Talent Produce Improvement Our Country Initiative

Author:John W. Thompson

“My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.”

Thinking Kind Children Kids Air Creator Fascinating Formulas Lure Hypnotic Scooby Doo

Author:Dave Willis

“To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.”

Way Kind Country Hard America Speak Europe Pressure Incredibles Our Country Japan Superstar

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.”

People Want Kind Enough Kids Wanted Culture Black White Changed Hip Hop Hips Hops Cool Things Back In The Day Funky Black Music

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.”

Way Humans Kind Democracy Rights Air Internet Human Rights Evolve Compatible Up In The Air Democracy And Human Rights

Author:Rebecca MacKinnon

“You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.”

Giving Kind Law Culture Taxes Following All Kinds Abortion Cheating Pregnant Procedures Sanitary Law Breaking

Author:Todd Akin

“We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.”

Way Kind Civilization Unkind Veneer

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.”

Thinking Years Kind Issues Feet Basketball Majors Majority Factors Get Better Injury Nba Playoffs Duncan

Author:Bill Walton

“Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.”

Kind Littles Able Can Do Amount Built Thrive

Book:Keys to Success

Source: Keys to Success

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.”

Thinking Should Humans Kind Ought Absolutes Distress Dependence Consolation Recourse

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.”

Ifs Years Kind Seems Young Youth Painful Treatment Delirium

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”

Thinking Way Kind Littles Sometimes Dream Seems Might Goal Vision Disappointment Resistance Rejection Scare Dreams You Have

Author:Gregory Peck

“The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in.”

People Kind Numbers Struggle Program Pressure Immigration Refugee

Author:Romano L. Mazzoli

“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.”

Kind Two Adventure Travel Funny Travel Adventurer

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.”

Ifs Men Kind Hell Military Army Marine Marine Corps Usmc United States Marine United States Marine Corps My Marine

Author:John J. Pershing

“Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.”

Kind Artist Strong Challenges Struggle Holy Transformation Entrepreneur Wings Butterfly Inventor Newborn Life Struggle

Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.”

World Kind Facts Universe Levels Common Effort Consciousness Mankind Benefits Add Improvement Collectives Floats Interconnected Scientific Facts Buoyancy

Book:Along the Path to Enlightenment

Source: Along the Path to Enlightenment

“There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.”

Way Writing Kind Has Beens Ideas Different Found Common Successful Succeed Elements Determination Method Persistence Overwhelming Different Kinds Determination To Succeed

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.”

Thinking Giving Kind Persons Made God Hands Purpose Choices Religious Chance Grace Generations Special Creator Compare Allowing This Generation One Of A Kind God Has A Plan

Author:Roy Lessin

“Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in motion-intuitive, artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you like to eat. They notice all the details, then make assumptions about every other area of your life based on these details.”

Ifs Men Kind Women Areas Shoes Details Assumption Belts

Author:Eben Pagan

“A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.”

Kind Matter Heaven Hell Awareness No Matter What Fortune Karma Mortals Penetrate Good Fortune Heaven And Hell

Author:Bodhidharma

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”

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