John Lyly Quotes
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln -
These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Patrick Macnee -
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall -
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
Nas -
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
Felicity Huffman -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
The military executes policy decisions.
Jack Keane
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Orhan Pamuk -
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi -
I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
Ralph Fiennes
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As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
Brad Feld -
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan -
For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.
Martin Amis -
I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.
Taika Waititi -
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
John Lyly