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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory. -- Olafur Eliasson
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness. -- Gail Sheehy
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea. -- Abigail Washburn
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. -- Zadie Smith
I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks. -- Michael Moore
I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory. -- Glenn Hubbard
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. -- Gus Van Sant
When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV. -- Anthony Fauci
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. -- Thom Mayne
I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off. -- Jonathan Ames
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic. -- Anthony Fauci
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting. -- Jesse Eisenberg
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece. -- Elizabeth Peyton
President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform. -- Glenn Hubbard
We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. -- Doug Elmendorf
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story. -- Juliet Stevenson
I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start. -- Nat Wolff
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. -- Art Spiegelman
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. -- Jim Harrison
The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. -- Mehmet Oz
I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal. -- Beau Willimon
A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston. -- Richard Dawkins
I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career. -- Trent Reznor
For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world. -- Mohsin Hamid
Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution. -- Timothy Leary
First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination. -- Joseph Campbell
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. -- Edward Abbey
I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different. -- Jonathan Lethem
Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory. -- Jen Hatmaker
Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy -- Canibus
Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn't seem to follow a trajectory. -- Ben Zimmer
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving. -- Neil Armstrong
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. -- Anita Diament
I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up. -- Kevin Pollak
I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out. -- Gillian Jacobs
If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students. -- Melinda Gates
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations. -- Adam Driver
"¦we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. -- Italo Calvino
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. -- Will Oldham
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. -- Fareed Zakaria
The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory. -- Narendra Modi
The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed. -- Sue Grafton
In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
We have at most ten years"?not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions. -- James Hansen
I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use. -- Michael Botticelli
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before. -- Sally Mann
I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable. -- Stacey Snider
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic. -- Anthony Fauci
Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution. -- Stephen Covey
No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it. -- Marianne Williamson
It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged. -- Richard Heinberg
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership. -- John Ralston Saul
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think. -- Roald Hoffmann
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961 -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory. -- Wyndham Lewis
Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be. -- Marco Tempest
One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind. -- George Saunders
As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds. -- Jean-Claude Ellena
I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory. -- Bob Weir
You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose. -- Archibald Marwizi
I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story. -- Asghar Farhadi
I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity. -- Liam Gillick
The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution. -- Jason Chaffetz
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I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision. -- Patti Smith

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