William Howard Taft Quotes
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Walt Disney
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
Valerie Cruz
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
K. D. Lang
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
Larry Wilcox
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
Taylor Schilling
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
Ian Mckellen
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
Barbra Streisand
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
Walter Russell Mead
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
Federica Montseny
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
Wayne Newton
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
Larry Brown
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Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.
Alexandra Petri
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[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
William S. Burroughs
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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
Amy Purdy
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The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.
Samuel Gompers
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
Oscar Wilde
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It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.
William Howard Taft