Friedrich Engels Quotes

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Friedrich Engels

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
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• To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
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• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
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• I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
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• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
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• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • See
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• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
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  • Hate

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
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• We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Want
  • Consequences
  • Repeat

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
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• I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Stop
  • Doing

• To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Find
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  • Prince

• I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • True
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• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Good
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• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'

  

  Bill Hader
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• Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

  

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  • Why
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• Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Work
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  • Passion

• And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Remember
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• My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Father
  • Death
  • Fear

• From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Driving
  • Greed