Allen Lacy Quotes
Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.Allen Lacy
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
Kangana Ranaut -
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
Gary Hamel -
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel -
I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
Randy Houser -
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain -
I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
I love Costco.
Gary Johnson -
Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
Sam Raimi -
My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
Flip Wilson
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
Gabby Douglas -
Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
Vikram Chatwal -
Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
Patrick deWitt -
Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
Flume -
Black condemned the 1966 decision made by Harold Wilson to pull out of the Persian Gulf and scrap the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers. He regarded the resignation of Christopher Mayhew, Minister of Defence for the Navy as 'the last resonance of good sense in that country until Maggie Thatcher came in.'
Conrad Black
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Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.
Klaus Schwab -
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
Fran Lebowitz -
Cain has built a city. For God's Eden he substitutes his own, for the goal given to his life by God, he substitutes a goal chosen by himself.
Jacques Ellul -
If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.
Willard Scott -
Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.
Allen Lacy