Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.
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Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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What happened to Riggs?
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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
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Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'
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Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
