Judith Martin (Miss Manners) Quotes
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.Judith Martin
Quotes to Explore
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
Naveen Jain -
I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden -
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
Carla Bruni -
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Carine Roitfeld -
As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
Brown Campbell -
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
Jackson Katz -
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
Daley Thompson -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro -
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
Walter Salles -
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
Kaley Cuoco
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow -
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. Kelly -
Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
Jackie Speier -
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
Calvin Klein -
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
Cam Gigandet -
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I'm an early bird and I'm an owl. So I'm wise and I have worms.
Steve Carell -
Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
Sam Heughan -
The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.
Edgar Guest -
Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer...
W. Edwards Deming -
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
Judith Martin