William Henry Ashley Quotes
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.William Henry Ashley
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney -
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
Laura Dern -
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
Jack O'Brien -
Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
Tammy Duckworth
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
Tadao Ando -
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes -
We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
Walter Cronkite -
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
Umberto Eco -
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. Howe
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
Mahershala Ali -
No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
Oksana Baiul -
I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
Tammy Duckworth -
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
Washed Out -
I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
Rachel Platten
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
Taylor Sheridan -
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
Bobby Seale -
If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy -
It's always my situation. It's always, I've got to be somewhere for one or two years, they re-evaluate you from here and there and then go from there.
Gary Sheffield -
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
William Henry Ashley