William R. Alger Quotes
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
Qandeel Baloch
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
Ted Cruz
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
Victoria Justice
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Carine Roitfeld
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
Yo-Yo Ma
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
Hannibal Buress
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
Saad Hariri
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
Daniel Barber
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
Adam Goldberg
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
Calvin Johnson
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
Parker Posey
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
Orson Scott Card
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Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
Bubba Sparxxx
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'Instead of change, please give me gun so i can shoot you.' She is soft-spoken but short and full of rage lately, like her whole life.
Daniel Handler
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
Viktor Orban
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
James Nesbitt
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
William R. Alger