Christopher Morley Quotes
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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Indra Nooyi -
The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
Rachel Maddow -
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
Gail Simmons -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
Osric Chau -
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
Orson Scott Card
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
Frances Beinecke -
Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Imran Amed -
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
Malcolm X -
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
Abbas Kiarostami -
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot -
I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.
Imelda May -
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
Sam Harris -
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman -
So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
Walter Dean Myers -
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
Cara Delevingne
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
William Lewis Trogdon -
I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations -
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
Jon Meacham -
I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.
Nick Cannon -
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Christopher Morley