Joseph Cook Quotes
A monarchy is like a man-of-war - bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.Joseph Cook
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
Gary Shteyngart -
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady -
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters -
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander -
I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold -
We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
The underdog winning is the romantic position.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers -
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
Kate Beckinsale -
Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
Rabih Alameddine -
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
Hanoi Hannah -
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.
Alexander Pope
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali -
Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.
Catherine Ryan Hyde -
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas Carlyle -
A monarchy is like a man-of-war - bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
Joseph Cook