Ian Dury Quotes
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
Ted Yoho -
Good sports facilities are a blessing.
Kapil Dev -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
Sam Yagan -
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
Gabrielle Anwar -
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
Ralph Lauren
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
Sam Altman -
'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
Aasif Mandvi -
Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 states out there that are laboratories of democracy. Why are we not empowering the states to find solutions to our problems, particularly health care, as opposed to looking to a one-size-fits-all solution from Washington, D.C.? That puzzles even me.
Gary Herbert -
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
Hannah Kent -
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
L.A. Weatherly -
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
Daniel Clowes
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
Carl Icahn -
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler -
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso -
And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
Madeleine Albright -
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Daniel Ellsberg
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English never met a word it didn't like.
Anu Garg -
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
Frank Tipler -
If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
Bart Gordon -
Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!
Daniel Horan -
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
David Sedaris -
I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.
Ian Dury