Bob Barr Quotes
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.Bob Barr
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
Bassem Youssef -
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Lao Tzu -
I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
Kate Spade -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis -
Women love a self-confident bald man.
Larry David -
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
Sally Ride -
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
Cara Delevingne -
Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
Carla Gugino -
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
Olivia De Havilland -
You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
Samantha Morton -
I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
Rachel Tucker
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid -
The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
Nathan Myhrvold -
I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
Ian Holm -
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Salman Rushdie -
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin
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A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
John Prendergast -
Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'
Conan O'Brien -
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper -
Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
Eric Garcetti -
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
Bob Barr