Ben Dreyfuss Quotes
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.Ben Dreyfuss
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster -
I'm a darned good listener.
Naomi Judd -
When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
Earl Butz -
I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
Ted Yoho
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
Dan Webster -
We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover -
But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Walter Raleigh -
'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
Ursula K. Le Guin -
How pleasant to sit on the beach,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,With ocean galore within reach,And nothing at all to be done!.
Ogden Nash -
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
Matt Taibbi
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On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.
Douglas Rushkoff -
Immigration reform is for those thousands of people in my district and the millions of people across the country who want nothing more than to work hard, provide for their families, and reach for the American Dream.
Jan Schakowsky -
I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
Phil Rizzuto -
I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.
Kevin Gates -
I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.
Delta Goodrem -
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
James Dickey
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I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
Gabe Jennings -
Hope is as intangible as belief.
Craig Lancaster -
I always leave room for serendipity and chance.
Ken Stott -
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy -
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
Allen Newell -
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
Ben Dreyfuss