John Robert Seeley Quotes
... John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things-to inaugurate a new régime, and also to nominate a successor who was far greater than himself.
John Robert Seeley
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
Valerie Plame
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Madeleine Albright
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Harrison Ford
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
Samuel Barnett
Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
Earl Campbell
I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
Yvette Nicole Brown
Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
Felicity Jones
Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
Alain Prost
In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.
Elena Roger
Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
Donald Hall
Comedians' first ten minutes usually stay with them the first several years of their career. It's their mission statement. Their disclaimer that lets people know who they are. Or were. It's also a good time to make fun of your name if you have a funny or strange one.
Bob Saget
... John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things-to inaugurate a new régime, and also to nominate a successor who was far greater than himself.
John Robert Seeley
