Kamisese Mara Quotes
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust -
I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
Gary Herbert -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
Vera Farmiga -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Gabriel Marcel
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
Bebe Moore Campbell -
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Nancy Kerrigan -
For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky -
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
Harry Anderson
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
Idina Menzel -
I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
Ursula Andress -
Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
Carl Honore -
My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
Samaire Armstrong -
I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
Sam Raimi -
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown
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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
Bob Graham -
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.
Gary Giddins -
I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
Ali Larter -
As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
Burton Cummings The Guess Who -
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George Hewitt Myers -
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
Kamisese Mara