Sidney Poitier Quotes
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
Radhanath Swami -
The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
Carlos Slim -
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
Ian Rankin -
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson -
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush -
I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
Laura Benanti -
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Abbie Cornish -
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice -
I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
Lamar Alexander -
Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
Irving Langmuir -
Hunter Thompson wasn't Joseph Conrad, Jimmy Carter wasn't Harry Trueman. But strangely, Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon. I'm no Pablo Picasso but there's no harm in straining. After all, the charm of any activity is in the trying and so rarely in the finished article.
Ralph Steadman -
Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
Kirk Douglas -
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
Christine Todd Whitman
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The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
Christine Lagarde -
I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.
James Murphy -
I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.
Andra Day -
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier