Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.Fiorello LaGuardia
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
Yossi Sarid -
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
Maggie Q -
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Edgar Wright -
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. Kelly -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell -
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
Randi Weingarten
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
Barry Hannah -
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov -
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel Alexander
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
Naomi Weisstein -
So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
Mary Oliver -
Give your weakness to one who helps.
Rumi -
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
Gary Bauer -
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
Lynda Barry -
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
Fiorello LaGuardia