Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Henry Ward Beecher
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Paddy Ashdown
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
Sam Hunt
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
Nancy Garden
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When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
Shailene Woodley
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Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
Barack Obama
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon
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To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States. Let them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land.
George Washington
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Henry Ward Beecher