Daniel Okrent Quotes
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.Daniel Okrent
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
Nana Visitor -
The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
Xavier Niel -
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt -
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
Earl Campbell -
Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
Zaha Hadid
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
Harold B. Lee -
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
Ralph Fiennes -
I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
Patrick deWitt -
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
Halsey -
I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
Jacki Weaver -
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Park Geun-hye
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine -
If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.
Frances McDormand -
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Abraham Lincoln -
Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
Edmund Morgan -
Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
Wendell Phillips -
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn't he. And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It's enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he's actually read it.
Hillary Clinton -
When I date different guys, I just have to stay away - and not let myself fall. Because if I do, it's over.
Janet Jackson -
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas -
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
Daniel Okrent