Omar Bongo Quotes

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

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• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Christianity
  • Out
  • Did

• My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Color

• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • America
  • Food
  • Responsibility

• I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Funny

• Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Culture
  • Day

• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Money
  • Wood
  • Corners

• Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Warm

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

  

  Gale Norton
  • Why
  • Government
  • Environment

• From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Man
  • Day
  • Make A Difference

• I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • You
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• I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Love
  • Stuff
  • Fan

• You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Courage
  • Forgive
  • Sentimentality

• Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Music
  • Years

• In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Intellect
  • Loses
  • Necessary

• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Power
  • Duty
  • Fit

• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • God
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

  

  William Cobbett
  • People
  • Government
  • Former

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Birth
  • Union
  • African