John Fleming Quotes

I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.

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• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
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• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
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• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
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• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
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• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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• Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.

  

  Abby Wambach
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  • Honest
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• Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Children
  • Garden
  • Influence

• On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

  

  Fareed Zakaria

• The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'

  

  Jack Kerouac
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  • Lost

• The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Mind
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• The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word 'white'?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

  

  Ellen Key
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• I've been very active in Missouri.

  

  Jim Talent

• I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.

  

  Alber Elbaz
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  • Cool

• When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • War
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• I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• All phenomena are empty.

  

  Bodhidharma

• I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Business
  • Wilderness
  • Forests

• I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.

  

  John Fleming