William Graham Sumner Quotes
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
William Graham Sumner
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Taylor Swift
Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf
I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
M. K. Hobson
I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
Matt Bellamy
Muse
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
Douglas Brinkley
I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.
Carl Yastrzemski
If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
William Jennings Bryan
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
William Graham Sumner
