Harvey Milk Quotes
To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.Harvey Milk
Quotes to Explore
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
Saina Nehwal -
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden -
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
Samantha Bond -
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
Kate Williams -
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig -
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
Nate Berkus -
The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
Dana Perino -
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
Zooey Deschanel
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
Nargis Fakhri -
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
Igor Stravinsky -
The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.
Jared Polis -
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
David Friedman -
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
Elizabeth Debicki -
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
Patti Davis
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You're too young to let the world break you.
Kim Tae-hyung BTS -
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.
Romano Prodi -
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
Kit Williams -
Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region.
Barack Obama -
To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.
Harvey Milk