#managed

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#blow #bulbs #chemistry #elementary #glass

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#avoid #been #children #delight #doing

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#been #exactly #fringes #function #i

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. ↗

— James Nathan Miller

#character #gaze #his #managed #mastery

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #got #had #intellectual #into

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open. ↗

— Clive Owen

#career #fact #i #keep #managed

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#believe #cliche #how #i #look

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. ↗

— Jon Postel

#any #government #internet #issue #managed

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#accident #american #american people #country #each

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extraordinary #managed #produce #situations #terrible