Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama -
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis -
There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
Ted Nugent -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt -
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
Gary Johnson
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin -
High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
India de Beaufort -
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
Sally Phillips -
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
Waris Dirie -
We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
Wendy Kopp -
I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Barbara Amiel
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
Joe Biden -
But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
Dan Abnett -
In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted contemptible, and working out his quiet schemes with an infinite patience and thoroughness. When he was offered the richer Intendancy of Lyons, he would not take it. Here, as he said of himself, though he was 'the compulsory instrument of great evil,' he was doing a little good. Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
Evelyn Beatrice Hall -
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Rita Mae Brown -
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Samuel Johnson