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Popular quotes of the
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We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.
H. L. Mencken -
Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
Terence McKenna -
I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. When I give my heart, I give myself totally.
Jiah Khan -
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
Jimmy Carter -
Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
James Michael Aloysius Bradford -
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I drank that sentence and began to glow.
Gary Soto -
I'm concerned about what happened in South Dakota. The government needs to stay out of people's private lives.
Ed Fallon -
It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'
Lindsey Buckingham -
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz -
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Confucius
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
Dana Spiotta -
Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
Ariana Grande -
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
R. M. Williams -
I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.
Dr. John -
Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.
Bob Colacello -
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson -
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
John Ruskin -
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
Albert Einstein -
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
Bill Hicks -
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
Chris Crutcher -
When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
Paul Newman
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
Candace Bushnell -
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
Barton Gellman