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“Most comic book creators consider about making characters that people recognize and that can carry across many books. Something that becomes a trademark. For me I have always just followed IDEAS, and that takes me into a whole range of things.”

People Book Ideas Whole Character Creator Comic Range Take Me Comic Book Trademarks

Author:Sean Michael Wilson

“I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!”

People World Believe Life Is Hate Can Do I Hate Luck Range Best Things Irony Shirts T Shirt

Author:John Lydon

“I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids fall in love with language and what you can do with it and how it sounds in your range. It sort of has a musicality but on the other hand they get the story and the ideas and the context of it. I think it's a way to get kids into it and I also think that when kids are around people who love books it rubs off on them.”

People Thinking Way Book Ideas Helping Stories Hands Kids Young Fall Language Sound Can Do Reader Falling In Love Range Picture Books Musicality Story Book

Author:Josh Prince

“I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.”

Different Common Fit Dresses Range Worn Couture

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.”

Ifs Should Mind Humans Body Possibility Objects Huge Computer Instruments Musical Your Body Range Devices Allowing Human Experience Expressive Precedent Interfaces Musical Instruments

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.”

Different Physics Observation Range Probability

Author:Robert Lanza

“Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.”

Use Song Warm Range Christina

Author:Amy Lee

“I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.”

Long Subjects Range Contracts Outspoken

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.”

“The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.”

Home America Animal Protect Plant Wide Variety Range Wilderness Sanctuary Ecosystems North America Arctic Plants And Animals Coastal

Author:Dan Lipinski

“A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.”

Different Soul Interesting Pieces One Thing Wide Your Soul Range Different Things Thrill Really Interesting

Author:David Lynch

“Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.”

Made One Day Activity Reflection Range Faithful Our Time Historian Ads Archaeologists

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'”

Two Left Acting Raises Extremes Range Eyebrows Two Extremes

Author:Roger Moore

“It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.”

Writing Facts Enjoy Interest My Own Walking Garden Paint Wide Range Gardening

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.”

Said Fall Lost Silence Habit Degrees Phones Range Realising Isolated Blackberries

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.”

People Helping Kids School Jobs Values Lines Skills Essentials Bottom Range Bottom Line Governing Public Sector Helping Someone

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.”

People Ifs America Desire Animal Numbers Five Impossible Bird Percent Raises Raised Range Meat Eggs Farms Milk Factories Sheer Ninety Humane

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.”

Ifs Would Be Night Return Periods Range Holiday Gym Consumption January

Author:Rachel Nichols

“I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.”

Firsts Play Kids Saws Balls Driving Range Tournaments Columbus Great Friend

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.”

Hands Wish Voice Powerful Greater Lucky Glad Range Accurate Distinctive Useful Things

Author:Gary Numan

“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”

Ifs Writing Book Reading Creative Reader Range

Author:Ben Okri

“I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction rather than making the blanket assumption that all commercial fiction is unworthy.”

Thinking Men Black White Fiction New York Reader Range Reviews Purple Men Women New York Times

Author:Jodi Picoult

“The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.”

World Firsts War Europe Range War Of The Worlds Witch Persecution Second World War Heretic Tolls Inquisition Infidel First World War

Author:Steven Pinker

“I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.”

People Looks Two Whole Might Decision Issues Policy Court Supreme Range Candidates My Time Supreme Court

Author:Colin Powell

“The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?”

Care Running Baby Range Rely Stable Getting Older Backbone Firing Dementia Boomers Family Relationship Baby Boomer

Book:A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.”

Country Company Records Fans Taste Defined Range Programmers Record Companies Consultants Music Fans Moguls Country Music Fans

Author:Charley Pride

“My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.”

Jobs Creating Seasons Developing Range Theme Fabric Initials Fitting Sketching Sampling

Author:Nicole Richie

“'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.”

World Wells Long Character Helping Stories Action Stars Security Adventure Drama Concepts Built Train Missions Defined Range Performing Exploration Transportation Format Wagons Yorktown

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.”

Men Years Wanted Film Girl Found Term Ten Singing Dancing Faults Range Singing And Dancing

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.”

Needs Ideas Helping Decision Support Perspective Tests Hearing Range Marketplace Consultation

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.”

Trying Helping President Decision Answers Issues Policy Raises Arise Range Guidance Evoke Precedent

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.”

People World Has Beens Whole Stuff Taught Limits Difficulty Range Examining Muslim World

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.”

Years Play Differences Range Similarity

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.”

Body Reality Universe Steps Periods Prison Range Twilight Sunlight Incarnation Incarceration

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”

Men World Humans Whole Race Blessing Filled Whole World God Love Range Human Race Bless Anxious

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.”

People Men Trying Soul Killing Bounds Range

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.”

Want I Can Actors Goal Interesting Roles Particular Range Do The Best Best Work

Author:Dan Stevens

“I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.”

Whole Moving Enjoy Common Issues Republican Conversation Dialogue Range Spirited Personal Relationships Common Ground Baffled

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.”

Years Humans Used Brain Mountain Mere Species Wit Desert Range Massive Survived Infant Arctic Habitat Tropical Rainforest Mountain Ranges Wetlands

Author:David Suzuki

“We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.”

Humans Use Easy Products Addiction Range Dependent Bags Plastic Reducing Packaging Plastic Bags

Author:David Suzuki

“Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?”

Happiness Joy Beauty Bounds Range

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”

Years Children Age Understanding Boys Son Months Range Thank You Little Boys Baby Boy New Baby Boy My Baby Boy Cute Baby Boy

Author:James Thurber

“I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up without having pre-conceptions of how I should deal with it. My only long-range plan has been and still is just the very general plan of making Linux better.”

Way Trying Long I Can Deals Vision Plans Come Up Range

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.”

People Mean Hard Morning Player Train Range Monday Asian Monday Morning

Author:Yani Tseng

“I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.”

Want Important Use Used Given Instruments Range Chorus

Author:Edgard Varese

“Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.”

Different Comedy Style Wide Range Qualified Different Styles

Author:Tim Vine

“As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.”

Care Age Offers Old Age Health Care Range Broads Facility Affordable Good Health Infancy Therapeutic Good Health Care

Book:You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care

Source: You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care

“You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.”

Ifs Long Done Dream Vision Plans Walking Commitment Strategy Range Delivering Gum Chewing Executing Chewing Gum

Author:Jack Welch

“When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.”

Years Used Dad My Dad Driving Range Houston

Author:Ron White

“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”

Language Growth Race Communication Range Composition English Language Dialect

Book:The Portable Walt Whitman

Source: The Portable Walt Whitman

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