Ernest Istook Quotes
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.Ernest Istook
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
Park Chan-wook -
Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
Larry the Cable Guy -
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall -
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Ori Gersht -
Fashion is one big family.
Carine Roitfeld
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
Brown Campbell -
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
Candice Swanepoel -
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
Patricia Highsmith -
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
Imran Amed -
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
Viktor Orban -
Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.
Kate Brown -
I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.
Mandy Moore -
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.
Jack Kingston -
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
Ban Ki-moon
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
Barack Obama -
The present is a powerful deity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.
Dan Webster -
You practice and you get better. It's very simple.
Philip Glass -
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
Ernest Istook