John Henrik Clarke Quotes

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

John Henrik Clarke

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Learn

• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Authority
  • Run
  • Behind

• It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Time
  • Break
  • Inside

• I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Walk

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Changes
  • Him
  • Turn

• I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Decisions

• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Matter
  • Get
  • Ball

• Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • Done
  • Friends

• I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Face
  • Traveling
  • Especially

• When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • You
  • Actor
  • Choose

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Never
  • Favorite

• I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Experience

• I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

  John Monash
  • Service

• To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Birth
  • Human being

• If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

  

  Andrew Lo
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

  

  Edmund Bourne
  • Environment
  • Humanity
  • Development

• I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

  

  John Henrik Clarke