Mae West Quotes
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
Narendra Modi -
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
Taye Diggs -
When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
Harmon Killebrew -
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Raj Kapoor -
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
Dan Rather -
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
Ted Koppel -
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer -
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
Gary Hamel -
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
N. T. Wright -
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
Gabriel Iglesias -
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
Abraham Verghese -
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Yoko Ono
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Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.
Jamie Wyeth -
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton -
All animals feel Wonder, and many exhibit Curiosity. They sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them.
Charles Darwin -
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
E. O. Wilson -
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West