William Graham Sumner Quotes
If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.William Graham Sumner
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
Ted Danson -
On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman -
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
Laura Marling -
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor Swift -
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther -
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Hamza Yusuf -
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Warren Spector -
I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
Barry Sternlicht -
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
Teddy Sears -
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer -
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor -
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
Lamar Alexander -
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
Deepak Chopra -
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.
Linda Ronstadt -
That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script Voltron is very matter of factly.
Rhys Darby -
If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
William Graham Sumner