Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

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• Oakland kids are always the best.

  

  Zendaya
  • Kids
  • Best
  • Always

• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
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  • Mayor

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

  

  Dan Abrams
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  • Animal

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • God
  • Women
  • She

• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Wealth
  • Key
  • U.S.

• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Justice
  • Legal
  • Finance

• When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

  

  Janis Ian
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• The upper classes really shouldn't open their mouths on television. Whatever it is they're saying, all your brain actually hears is 'Tra la la, I live in a bubble, tra la la, murder a fox, tra la la, Conde Nast Traveller, tra la la, Kensington High Street, tra la la.' They should know their place and keep quiet.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Live
  • High
  • Brain

• She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... Susan said she learned more about how to play the part from talking to my mom than to me.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
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