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Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References. -- Scott Belsky
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request. -- Bette Davis
References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out. -- Julianne Malveaux
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references. -- Nathan Fillion
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. -- Vladimir Putin
All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100! -- Lauren Graham
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates. -- Rick Perlstein
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. -- Seth Rogen
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. -- Carlisle Floyd
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels. -- Ntozake Shange
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. -- Ernest Istook
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. -- Mel Smith
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. -- Shepard Fairey
I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that. -- Ice Cube
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. -- Thomas Sowell
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! -- Tracy Chapman
I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis? -- Roz Chast
Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot. -- Daniel Tammet
The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated. -- Matt Groening
There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. -- John Ortberg
Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time. -- Natalie Dormer
I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. -- Alban Berg
When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something. -- Linda Sue Park
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. -- Oscar Wilde
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. -- Mark Lloyd
Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection. -- Georgina Chapman
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy. -- Wynton Marsalis
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. -- Drew Houston
Always verify your references. -- Martin Routh
There are no answers, only cross references -- Norbert Wiener
The Christian Bible offers some 300 references to Angels. -- James R. Lewis
Expand your references, and you'll immediately expand your life. -- Tony Robbins
Money and goods are certainly the best of references. -- Charles Dickens
I take references from the past and flip them. -- Theophilus London
The references you do not verify are the good ones. -- Charles Peguy
But it's not just a game of finding literary references. -- Dan Simmons
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work. -- Tori Amos
Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up. -- James Rollins
9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one. -- Jon Stewart
[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt. -- Paul Kengor
You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir. -- Martin Routh
For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references. -- Michael Sheen
Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition, -- Lubov Azria
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture. -- Eric Kripke
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. -- Paul Auster
My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s. -- Clemence Poesy
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved. -- Jonathan Lethem
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. -- John Malkovich
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references. -- Jim Hodges
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. -- Jan Karon
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. -- Matt Mullenweg
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me. -- Bruce LaBruce
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. -- Jay Sankey
[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit. -- Dorothy Parker
I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. -- Mark Kozelek
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. -- Van Morrison
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain. -- Benjamin Hart
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. -- Jeff Koons
Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references. -- Gerald Stern
I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age. -- Xavier Dolan
You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even. -- Susan Sontag
You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references. -- David Wolfe
Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known. -- Clarence Benjamin Jones
Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip. -- Sam Altman
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. -- Ming-Dao Deng
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. -- Mika
What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and... -- Christopher Golden
When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time. -- Steven Petrow
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture? -- Bart Chilton
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references. -- Susan Sontag
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere. -- Guido Palau
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me. -- John Hodgman
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes. -- Saina Nehwal
Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it. -- Boris Trajkovski
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. -- James Hunter
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations. -- Martin Amis
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for. -- Jonathan Ive
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use. -- Michel Hazanavicius
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" -- Tim Burton
If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at. -- Ivanka Trump
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle. -- Dennis Kucinich
Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team. -- Ryan Holmes
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something. -- J. J. Abrams
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. -- Shepard Fairey
There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising. -- Marshall Brickman
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years. -- Gilbert Gottfried
There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference. -- Joe Bradley
I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir. -- Olivier Megaton
Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions. -- Vita Sackville-West
I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references. -- John Cleese
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references. -- Raina Telgemeier
U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories. -- Barton Gellman
Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion. -- Marc Jacobs
Mystical references to 'society' and its programs to 'help' may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means isputting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. -- Thomas Sowell
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap. -- Marcel Proust
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase. -- Bob Beauprez
I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new. -- Georg Baselitz
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. -- Joanna Newsom
Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid. -- Duncan Sheik
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group. -- H. Ned Seelye
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations. -- Brian Eno
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats -- Thomas Sowell
It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance. -- Billy Corgan
One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now. -- Richard Carlson
If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out. -- Tony Robbins
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. -- Kevin Ayers
Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore. -- Chaz Bundick
It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get. -- Chath Piersath
If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me. -- Gretchen Carlson
I rarely get the "Annie Hall" references other than from people who are aficionados of movies, people who really care about movies. But in general, people don't even think about it. -- Diane Keaton
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. -- Ella Maillart
I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own. -- Leonard Cohen
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there. -- Celeste Ng
If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? -- Deb Caletti
I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references. -- Stephen Mallinder
The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right. -- Mads Mikkelsen

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