Gene Tunney Quotes

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

Gene Tunney

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• It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Different
  • Song
  • Myself

• I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mother
  • Career
  • Fashion

• I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Friends
  • College
  • Quiet

• In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Communism

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Well
  • Jews
  • Middle East

• I think I can help others just by my example.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Help
  • I Can
  • Help Others

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Cool

• The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • History
  • Accept
  • Push

• If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Money
  • Done
  • Game

• It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Authority

• What I'm interested in as an actor is exploring universes that I have not come across before. It's interesting to me to be able to discover new things. I do like fantasies, and I like when film is inspiring and it puts creative ideas into the minds of the audience.

  

  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Ideas
  • Actor
  • Discover

• People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

  

  Mstislav Rostropovich
  • People
  • Important
  • Balance

• A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

  

  Gene Tunney