Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan -
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming -
I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
Larry the Cable Guy -
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
Barbara Boxer -
I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
Damian Lewis -
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
Adam Grant
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
Barney Frank -
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I hate big models.
Imogen Cunningham -
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner -
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
Walter Mosley
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In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.
Jack Keane -
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Pankaj Mishra -
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx -
I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
C. Thomas Howell -
I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
Zooey Deschanel
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There should be no limits for the blind.
Sabriye Tenberken -
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
Nina Fedoroff -
Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.
Kourtney Kardashian -
Nowhere does one come to know an artist better than in his prints and the woodcut is the most graphic of the print processes.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
Oliver Cromwell