John George Nicolay Quotes
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.John George Nicolay
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth -
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
Frances O'Grady -
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
Octavia E. Butler -
I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
Callie Khouri -
When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
Taylor Swift -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom
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Western man is schizophrenic.
J. B. Priestley -
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Zaha Hadid -
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
Kate Atkinson -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
Salman Rushdie -
My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
Caio Fonseca
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
Aberjhani -
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
Vicki Lawrence -
Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
Irina Shayk -
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
Garrett Graff
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
Jesse Eisenberg -
We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
Douglas Brinkley -
There were about a thousand things I liked better than this part, in which we talked about women like they were just things. I tried to imagine what it would be like if gay were normal and all of us were gay. Would we objectify men in the same way?
Bill Konigsberg -
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
R. Lee Ermey -
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
John George Nicolay