Christopher McDougall Quotes
We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.Christopher McDougall
Quotes to Explore
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
Ram Charan -
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
Pat Nixon -
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
Maisie Williams -
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
D. A. Pennebaker -
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
Imogen Poots
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
Victoria Osteen -
TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
Ram Kapoor -
I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
Taylor Swift -
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane -
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
Jackie Speier -
Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
Karan Singh Grover
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
Dan Simmons -
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
Imran Khan -
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Edmund Morgan -
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
Yaya Toure
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
Kamisese Mara -
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
Lysander Spooner -
There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.
Margaret Stohl -
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
Adam Grant -
I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
Tavi Gevinson -
We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
Christopher McDougall