John C. Calhoun Quotes

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

John C. Calhoun

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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

Talib Kweli Black Star
- Money
- America
- Wall
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

Aaron Klug
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

Jacob Epstein
- Great
- Family
- America
What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

Tamra Davis
- People
- Done
- Fun
If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

Hanya Yanagihara
- You
- Never
- Location
The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

Gary Weiss
- Real
- Attention
- Problem