Pete Laney Quotes
All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.Pete Laney
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
Haniel Long -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
Earl Campbell -
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
Kage Baker -
There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
Cara Delevingne -
I really am a woman at peace.
Laura Schlessinger -
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
Ma Jun -
There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
Usain Bolt -
I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
Kat Dennings -
I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
Oded Fehr -
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann -
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
Vernon L. Smith -
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
Ramana Maharshi -
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan Quayle
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Vera Brittain -
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte -
I don't think I do anything that well, but I do a little bit of everything!
Jane Krakowski -
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
Cynthia Kenyon -
All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.
Pete Laney