Diogenes Quotes
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran -
I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
Rachael Ray -
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
Harry Browne -
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. King -
I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
Ralph Steadman
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
Sabrina Bryan -
Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.
Jack Keane -
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara De Angelis -
'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Manny Farber -
I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
Carey Mulligan
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
Sam Claflin -
'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015
C. K. Williams -
The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.
Taliesin -
It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
Maimonides -
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.
Kiran Desai -
The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
Hillary Clinton
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He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
Charles Spurgeon -
They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench -
Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.
Elizabeth Thornton -
When I have a family, I will be retired.
Lizzie Armitstead -
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes