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 -
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 -
For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
Larry Hogan
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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 -
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
Queen Elizabeth II
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny -
Satire doesn't effect change.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
Jane Byrne -
I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
Yuri Lowenthal -
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
Douglas Feith -
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