William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.William Sloane Coffin
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
Mackenzie Crook -
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard -
I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
Laura Harrier -
Women are the heads of most households in our state and make the most financial decisions for their families.
Larry Hogan -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
Victor Kiam
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
Umberto Eco -
New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
Daniel Boulud -
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
Usain Bolt -
Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon -
I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
Gabby Douglas -
If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
Manolo Blahnik
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. Mark Felt -
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Barry Ritholtz -
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
Bar Refaeli -
The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
Caitriona Balfe -
Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
Laura Mvula -
I'm only a human being.
Wayne Rooney
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
Paul Auster -
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson -
I laughed until my fat hurt.
Cathy Lamb -
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
William Sloane Coffin