William Graham Sumner Quotes
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of othersWilliam Graham Sumner
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
Halima Aden -
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
Vera Wang -
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong -
Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
Samantha Smith -
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid -
I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
Pablo Sandoval -
I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
Langhorne Slim -
I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
Oscar Isaac -
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam -
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
Nargis Fakhri -
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
Barry Eisler -
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
Teddy Sears -
The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
Dan Gilbert
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When we speak of mom winning custody or of dad getting visitation time, we speak of someone winning, someone losing. When we speak of mom or dad spending 'parent time' with a child, we speak of two parents, not a parent versus a visitor.
Warren Farrell -
Winning is definitely contagious.
Billy Butler -
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
David Copperfield -
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Martin Niemoller -
I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.
Elle Fanning -
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others
William Graham Sumner