William R. Alger Quotes
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.William R. Alger
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn -
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Natalie du Toit
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
Paris Hilton -
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
Aasif Mandvi -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville -
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott -
'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
Magnus Scheving
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
Halsey -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
Aaron Yoo -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
Beatrice Wood
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I'm not always going to like the paparazzi photos, but I'm still going to go to lunch with my boyfriend.
Emily Ratajkowski -
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
Oswald Chambers -
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.
Andris Nelsons -
We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
Yahoo Serious -
In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
Kurt Bills -
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
William R. Alger