Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Quotes
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
Rachel McAdams -
I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
Oliver Sim The xx -
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Danica McKellar -
I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.
Sally Mann -
Teamwork is a strategic decision.
Patrick Lencioni
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'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.
Gina Raimondo -
The loss of a young life is always difficult to accept. But the senselessness of this act of violence makes it even more painful and all the more difficult to accept and comprehend.
Jean Chretien -
Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.
Jennifer Donnelly -
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
Jennifer Garner -
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.
Cathy Hopkins -
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie
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The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
Joseph Prince -
I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
Callum McDougall -
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
Yoweri Museveni -
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
W. S. Merwin -
I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.
Abraham Lincoln -
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.