William Howard Taft Quotes
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.William Howard Taft
Quotes to Explore
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
Garrett Hedlund -
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
Vincent Cassel -
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
Yair Lapid
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour -
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
Wayne Huizenga -
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
Kaskade -
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
Ian Millar
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar -
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Rahm Emanuel -
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
Oliver Reed -
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer -
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
Beck -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
Chris Van Allsburg -
Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye -
Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
Les Baxter -
I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.
Chris Carmack -
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft