Direct Quotes

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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and… — Tabare Vazquez
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and… — Serge Schmemann
I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct. — Max Winkler
By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films. — Michael Mann
The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased… — Christina Romer
I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens. — Milos Zeman
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later,… — Elliot Perlman
In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims… — Sean Quinn
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress… — Dale Archer
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven… — George Washington
Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically… — Olivier Theyskens
Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness,… — Sydney Smith
Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told… — Alec Baldwin
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire… — Bertrand Wilbertforce
I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent… — Henry David Thoreau
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you. — Dr Robert Anthony
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your… — Bible
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan
Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still… — Robert White

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