Dean Rusk Quotes
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.Dean Rusk
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
Lars von Trier -
A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I have to grow with my audience.
Ice T -
I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
Nancy Pelosi -
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
Barbra Streisand -
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant -
We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.
W. Bruce Cameron
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Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.
Tamra Davis -
Beautiful language! Love's peculiar, own,But only to the spring and summer known.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
Augustus -
Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a rovingBy the light of the moon.
Lord Byron -
La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe.
Arthur Rimbaud -
I can understand why magicians have such a high insanity rate. We don’t end well, most of us, it has to be said. Paul Daniels might escape the worst effects, but the rest of us are pretty obviously doomed. Once you step over that line, you are in danger from a lot of stuff. Delusion, obviously, being the main thing.
Alan Moore
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It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
Gary Bettman -
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
Lewis Mumford -
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
Billy Collins -
For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.
Paul Craig Roberts -
Pride takes a lot of breaking.
Elizabeth Goudge -
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.
Dean Rusk