W. Averell Harriman Quotes

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Me
  • Star

• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Different
  • Think
  • Fighting

• I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Hope
  • Born
  • Legacy

• In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Money
  • Job
  • Bad

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Championships

• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Way
  • Education
  • Justice

• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Live
  • Success
  • Win

• 'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • American
  • Kind
  • Better

• The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Public
  • Go
  • Thinks

• Whatever it takes to win.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Win
  • Whatever
  • Takes

• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Lost

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • Phoenix

• I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Always
  • Landscape
  • Gardens

• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• There is nothing I can do to ever make up for that kick, ... But that happened. I take responsibility for that. In the future there are going to be opportunities, and I look forward to that.

  

  Nate Kaeding
  • Future
  • Opportunities
  • Kick

• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Effort
  • Plants

• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Always
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  • Courteous