Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day -
I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
Laura Carmichael -
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
Cal Thomas -
I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
Dane DeHaan -
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
Gabrielle Reece -
Bad ballplayers make good managers.
Earl Weaver -
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
Natasha Trethewey -
The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
Garrett Graff -
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
Wendy Kopp -
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
Mal Peet -
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel -
The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
Vicente del Bosque -
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Both of my children - my daughter Caroline, a public school teacher, and my son Elliot, an Army Ranger - are dedicating their lives to public service; thus, they have inspired my own decision to run for Congress.
Ann Callis -
Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, 'And I'm not getting laid.' What am I doing wrong?
Bill Hicks -
Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
Louis Stokes -
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
You've got to love someone enough to hate them.
Nuno Bettencourt -
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman