E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
Felicia Day -
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus -
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
Randi Weingarten -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
Laura Slade Wiggins -
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Val Kilmer -
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
Adam Peaty -
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
Laura Marling -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. Wilson -
I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
Dan Stevens -
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
Yitzhak Rabin
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
Jack Kerouac -
Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.
Janet Maslin -
Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.
Daniel Fried -
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
Dan Brown -
So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!
Joanne Rowling -
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax