Benjamin Butler Quotes
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.Benjamin Butler
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
Parker Posey -
I love Star City - it is my home.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
Mandy Patinkin -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
Abraham Lincoln
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Kacy Catanzaro -
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel -
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
Warren Spector -
A true champion will fight through anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
Mahershala Ali -
Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
Ian Mckellen -
It's so hard not to smile.
Zoe Sugg -
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
Otis Redding -
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
Yann Martel -
As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
T. C. Boyle
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The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
Nancy Pearcey -
I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
Umberto Eco -
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
Ram Charan -
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Fiona Apple -
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
Benjamin Butler