Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
Samantha Bee -
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
Aaron Levie -
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
Tawakkol Karman -
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. Barnum -
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali -
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
Karl Rove -
I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
Padgett Powell -
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs -
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
Vagit Alekperov -
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
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To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
Kevin Spacey -
One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
Randy Houser -
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
Salman Rushdie -
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.
Carles Puyol -
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull