John Fund Quotes
Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
John Fund
Quotes to Explore
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
Adam Peaty
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
Olivier Martinez
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
Jackie Cooper
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
Francesca Annis
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
Cameron Winklevoss
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
Kate Williams
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
Gary Johnson
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I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
Natalie Dormer
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
Gail Carriger
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
Orville Wright
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
Zubin Mehta
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
Vidal Sassoon
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
S. Truett Cathy
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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
David Limbaugh
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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
Jen Lancaster
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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
Erica Jong
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Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people’s fun?
Elizabeth Cunningham
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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
John Fund
