Carroll Quigley Quotes
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.Carroll Quigley
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova -
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Harold H. Greene -
For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
Laura Dern -
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson -
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
Barney Frank -
The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.
Bertrand Russell
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I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.
Joe Penny -
There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.
Jessica Chastain -
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
Elliot Cowan -
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
Emilio Estevez -
The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala -
There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success.
Preity Zinta
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People ask, 'Why is it called 5 Seconds of Summer when there's four of you?'
Ashton Irwin 5 Seconds of Summer -
In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.
Kimberly Quinn -
With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.
Christopher Miller -
The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.
Jen Kirkman -
I always respect a woman.
Enrique Iglesias -
Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
Peter Abrahams
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May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.
John Millington Synge -
We should send a message to the House, please do not bunch up your allegations. Charge each act of wrongdoing in a separate count. Such a change would clarify things and allow for a cleaner vote on guilt or innocence.
Charles Ruff -
You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
Mark Hyman -
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Steve Jobs -
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley