Will Durant Quotes
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
Lamar Hunt -
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln -
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris -
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
Dan Hawkins -
You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
Marat Safin -
I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
Frances McDormand
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
Sally Mann -
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
Daniel Craig -
I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
Fiona Apple -
We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
Viktor Orban -
I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Aaron Douglas -
When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
Olivier Theyskens
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
Ilan Stavans -
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Edmund White -
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
Karl Pilkington -
I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
Aaron Neville -
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
Adam Driver -
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
Cab Calloway
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
Forest Whitaker -
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Naveen Jain -
The federal government has a responsibility to address climate change. The federal government can continue to regulate corporations, tax polluters and incentivize the use of renewable forms of energy.
Juan Vargas -
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
D. H. Lawrence -
I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.
Sigmar Gabriel -
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant