Douglas Hurd Quotes
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.Douglas Hurd
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
Kate Voegele -
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson -
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
Carlos Santana Santana -
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
Larry Flynt -
There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
Manute Bol -
Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
Karen Handel -
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
Jack Levine -
I have reservations about everything I do.
Larry David -
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Harmony Korine -
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro -
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn -
The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy -
You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
Pat Gillick -
We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
Robert Frost -
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski -
That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.
Keith Stanfield -
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
Douglas Hurd