George Mikes Quotes
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.George Mikes
Quotes to Explore
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
Zig Ziglar -
I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
Dana Hussein -
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Jack Gilbert -
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry -
If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
Cameron Dallas -
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
Naveen Jain
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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne -
It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
Carl Jung -
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan -
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
Lee Kuan Yew -
The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
Logic -
The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
Anand Giridharadas
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
Marion Zimmer Bradley -
Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.
Dave Filoni -
We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.
Paul Kantner -
WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.
Jim Goetz -
There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.
Al Madrigal -
Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.
David Limbaugh
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What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
America Ferrera -
There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
Randa Haines -
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
Douglas Coupland -
If you could access 90 percent of your brain, you'd be Charles Xavier.
Christopher Priest -
This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci called the 'interregnum'-the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction.
Chris Hedges -
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George Mikes