Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.Ulysses S. Grant
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson -
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Orlando Bloom -
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine -
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
Larry Brown -
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov -
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
Zoe Saldana -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet -
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson -
There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
K. V. Thomas
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
Larry Hogan -
Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
Ian Botham -
I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
Nancy Pickard -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden -
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
Haley Joel Osment
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Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.
Jessica Hahn -
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
Marcus Aurelius -
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.
Francis Chan -
I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.
Kim Basinger -
I have a rendezvous with life.
Countee Cullen -
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.
Ulysses S. Grant