William Howard Taft Quotes
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.William Howard Taft
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Sade Adu -
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant -
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
Ibrahim Babangida -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot -
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
Wale -
I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
Kaskade -
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
P. J. O'Rourke -
For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
Imelda May -
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
Edgardo Osorio -
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Lady Gaga -
I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
Olivia Colman -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln -
For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
Kat Edmonson -
Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
Zac Posen
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
Beau Bridges -
Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare -
But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
Linda Vester -
No one will love you more than you love your pain.
Edwidge Danticat -
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
William Howard Taft