William Carey Quotes
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
Xavier Niel -
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Barbara Deming -
Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
Barton Gellman -
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings -
I never said I don't like gay people.
Pam Bondi -
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan -
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
Victoria Abril -
I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
Nancy Pelosi -
I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
Cameron Dallas -
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
Ward Churchill -
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
Iman -
People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
Kate Bush -
Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.
Lana Turner -
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Jackie Stewart -
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
Aaron Sorkin
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Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie -
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
Dan Chaon -
Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
Taraji P. Henson -
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Octavio Paz -
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Bashar al-Assad -
The less said about me the better.
William Carey