Jane Addams Quotes

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
  • Night
  • Affairs

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Long
  • Family
  • OK

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Moment
  • Producer
  • Some

• I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Movie
  • Roles
  • Fit

• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nations
  • Mother`s
  • Wars

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Tax

• Here's the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you're at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I've ever seen.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • War
  • Peace

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Pleasure

• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Practice

• Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Inspiration

• I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Family
  • Attention

• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Good
  • Team
  • Manager

• What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.

  

  Bobby Clarke

• One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music

• The prognosis is grim. Between 2000 and 2050, world population will grow by more than three billion to over nine billion people, but this 50 percent increase in global population will come entirely in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as one hundred million people of European stock vanish from the earth.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • America

• The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Earth
  • Community
  • Stock

• The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

  

  Jane Addams
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