Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
Patrick Lencioni -
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike -
For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
Fedor Emelianenko -
It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
Fidel Castro -
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller -
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Ed Greenwood
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
Adam Cohen -
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
Lakshmi Mittal -
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel -
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor -
The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti -
I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
Sam Smith
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It's brutal out on the football field.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
Cameron Russell -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier -
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo -
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
Ian MacKaye -
What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.
Cynthia Nixon -
I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
Hansika Motwani -
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
Jonathan Swift