Phil Gramm Quotes
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
Quotes to Explore
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
Ulrich Beck -
There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
Ian Wace -
I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone -
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
Tamara Tunie
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
Ban Ki-moon -
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson -
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda -
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
Abby Wambach -
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
Pankaj Mishra
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
Viktor Orban -
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow -
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
Karen DeCrow -
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty -
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
Taylor Swift
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.
Kiran Bedi -
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.
Brian Blessed -
I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.
Clark Johnson -
The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.
Jamila Woods -
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm