Jim Lehrer Quotes
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
Fan Bingbing -
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley -
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
Dan Brown -
All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
Nathan Lane
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
Uzo Aduba -
We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
Natalie Dormer -
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank -
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles -
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
Paddy Ashdown
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
Rachel Kushner -
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Harold Brodkey -
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
Ian Somerhalder -
I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
Laura Osnes -
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
Daniel Bell
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I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -
I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. -
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
Ban Ki-moon -
Being excitable and passionate is what makes you look good because if you're engaged in what's going on, you radiate youth.
Alexa Chung -
Politics is cyclical.
Darrell Issa -
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
Jim Lehrer