William Graham Sumner Quotes
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.William Graham Sumner
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus -
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar -
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Jack Keane -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian -
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright -
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
Carla Gugino -
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
D. B. Sweeney -
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
Barry McGee -
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
Gavin Newsom -
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow -
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
Viktor Yushchenko -
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
Harold MacMillan -
It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun -
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
William Godwin -
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
William Graham Sumner