Urijah Christopher Faber Quotes
I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
Camille Claudel
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. Smith
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
Otto Schily
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
Walter Cronkite
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
Kaley Cuoco
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.
Jared Polis
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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.
Lori Petty
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In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
David Horsey
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We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.
Janet Yellen
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I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.
Urijah Christopher Faber