Everett Dirksen Quotes

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

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• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
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• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

  Malachi Throne
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• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• I was kind of lost for several years.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.

  

  Ian Wace
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• But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

  

  Ted Naifeh
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• No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• Now who are the individuals who are the greatest benefactors of the living generation of mankind? I should say: Confucius and Lao-Tse; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad; and Socrates.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
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• When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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• It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

  

  James Rosenquist
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• Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

  

  Lee Iacocca
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  • Services

• Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Christian

• I don't blame people or 'pop stars' or whatever for being so quiet, but you can't take it too seriously, especially on social media. It's a very hard thing to be yourself, especially when people are watching, so I don't blame them for being a bit reserved.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Blame
  • Quiet
  • Watching

• We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

  

  Everett Dirksen
  • Different
  • Past
  • Times