Benjamin Butler Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
Rachel Kushner -
I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
Talulah Riley -
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis -
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
Sally Field
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
Caitriona Balfe -
Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
Karl Marx -
My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
Jack Vance -
Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica.
Pat Buchanan
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce -
We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.
Leonardo da Vinci -
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya -
I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.
Christie Brinkley -
There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.
Kevin Brady
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I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.
Brad Pitt -
Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.
Regina Doman -
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
Zach Braff -
People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.
Bruce Wilkinson -
I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
Benjamin Butler