Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.Madison Smartt Bell
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
Dana Plato -
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Patrick Chappatte -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
Odeya Rush -
I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
Taya Kyle -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T -
This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
Adam Hasner
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid -
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
Edmund White -
The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
Naveen Jain
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The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
Charles Kennedy -
The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
Johnny Carson -
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.
William Morris -
Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
Pat Sajak -
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
Madison Smartt Bell