John Podhoretz Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges -
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
Kaley Cuoco -
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
Garry Trudeau -
When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
Larry Wilmore -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
M. Night Shyamalan -
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
Ralph Nader -
You can do more, you can always do more.
Dan Marino -
I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
Vanessa Brown
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Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
Yasmin Mogahed -
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
John C. Calhoun -
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig -
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
Mary Cheney -
Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
John Podhoretz