Max Baucus Quotes
We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.Max Baucus
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
Sam Brownback -
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
Abu Abbas -
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer -
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy -
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
Katha Pollitt -
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Felicity Jones -
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
Saina Nehwal
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
Zoe Kravitz -
I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
Caity Lotz -
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp -
I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
Carla Gugino -
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman -
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
Randeep Hooda
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou -
The history of skiing is important to me.
Lindsey Vonn -
I think it's cool people love to hate me.
Carice van Houten -
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
Joe Klein -
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
Elisabeth Rohm -
We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.
Max Baucus