John G. Schmitz Quotes
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
Fatema Mernissi -
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
Walid Jumblatt -
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens -
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
Sabrina Carpenter -
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
Han Fei -
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
Pat Buckley -
Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
Wanda Sykes -
I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.
Victoria Justice -
Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
Ulysses S. Grant
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An ideal world can definitely be created with a pure mind and optimistic results.
A. R. Rahman -
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.
Anastacia -
The reproduction of labour power thus reveals as its sine qua non not only the reproduction of its ‘skills’ but also the reproduction of its subjection to the ruling ideology. ... It is in the forms and under the forms of ideological subjection that provision is made for the reproduction of the skills of labour power.
Louis Althusser -
Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
Margaret Thatcher -
Music that is in the charts today is quite dreadful. I find it a great honour that I have never been considered for awards, such as NME etc. It is a personal victory. All awards shows should be banned!
Morrissey The Smiths
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Wood storks cool off by defecating on their own legs.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.
Billy Howle -
We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
Emmanuelle Beart -
I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.
Jidenna Theodore Mobisson -
Jews are like everybody else, only more so1
John G. Schmitz