Carl G. Fisher (Carl Graham Fisher) Quotes
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis
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I would like to be a polyglot.
Rachel Maddow
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci
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Musical theatre is my first love.
Laura Benanti
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
Mandy Patinkin
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
Valerie Plame
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
Kanye West
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Edward Abbey
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
Charles Darwin
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The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
Anton Chekhov
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I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.
Joanna Lumley
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WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.
J. Edgar Hoover
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.
Richard Owen
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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
Carl G. Fisher