Mercy Otis Warren Quotes
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.Mercy Otis Warren
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent -
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
Jaclyn Smith -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
Karen Handel -
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
Val McDermid -
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Irving Penn -
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Mackenzie King -
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Walter Kirn -
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
Ornette Coleman
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My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
Amy Tan -
'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
Alastair Reynolds -
Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
Ahmet Davutoglu -
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
Neville Marriner -
I think the fans from the original 'Teen Wolf' tuned in expecting us to ruin the franchise, and I think that we've only heightened it. So we've brought 'Teen Wolf' back.
Colton Haynes -
Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.
Lewis Howes
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Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
Anne M. Mulcahy -
Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.
Anthony Doerr -
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
Penn Jillette -
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Jeanne Moreau -
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
Mercy Otis Warren