Ian Mcewan Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
Adam Cohen -
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Samuel Lover -
Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
Ramez Naam -
As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger -
Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
Yves Behar -
Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
iO Tillett Wright -
I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
J. D. Souther -
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Zoe Cassavetes -
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale -
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts -
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
Nat Wolff -
I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
James Forrestal -
Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
Mark Spitz -
He didn't repudiate what he said (in 1985), ... What he did say is that he has changed since that time over 20 years, and of course the court rulings have also been issued that established the precedent and reaffirmed Roe.
Olympia Snowe -
Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
Ban Ki-moon -
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr -
I don't really believe in evil at all.
Ian Mcewan