William Hurrell Mallock Quotes

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

William Hurrell Mallock

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• The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.

  

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• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
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• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
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• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'

  

  Rachel Keller
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• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

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• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

  

  Victor Salva
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• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
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• When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
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• People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share. Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun.

  

  Rachael Ray
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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

  

  Jay Roach
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• I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
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• A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
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• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!Vain as the leaf upon the stream,And fickle as a changeful dream;Fantastic as a woman's mood,And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.Thou many-headed monster thing,Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dream
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• Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Political
  • Reason
  • Struggle