Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.Thomas Hobbes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra -
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman -
I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
Olly Murs -
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler -
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
Ori Gersht
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava -
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel -
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe -
I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
Carlos Alazraqui -
You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
Danica McKellar
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Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons -
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
Kate Winslet -
When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
Kabir Bedi -
Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
Larry Bucshon -
I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
Larry David
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
Carine Roitfeld -
My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.
Doug Ducey -
Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.
Jonathan Krohn -
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan -
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Elizabeth I -
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
Thomas Hobbes