John Buchan Quotes
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
Mae Jemison -
For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
Laura Trott -
One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
Sam Rockwell -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
Adam Draper -
We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
Panayiotis Zavos
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
Valerie Plame -
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken -
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
Kary Mullis -
Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
G. Edward Griffin -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
Beck -
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase -
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
Aasif Mandvi -
Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
Patrick Ewing -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
Kelly Price -
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Abdoulaye Wade -
It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.
Nathan Lane -
about his father I have a real respect, and a real anger and sadness at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do the math on exactly what it all means.
Bill de Blasio -
My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
Foxy Brown -
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
John Buchan