John Prendergast Quotes
When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
John Prendergast
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
Ha-Joon Chang
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
Eden Hazard
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
Zadie Smith
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
Mal Peet
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
Wayne Rogers
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
Victor Cruz
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What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
Barbara Coloroso
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
Orlando Bloom
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No, they said they do not believe in evolution, then they said the biggest threat to America: religious radicals living in the Dark Ages.
Jay Leno
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
Harry Browne
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How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.
William Mackergo Taylor
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I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
Alec Waugh
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When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
John Prendergast