Bob Herbert Quotes
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
Bob Herbert
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. Simpson
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
Victoria Pendleton
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
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People will always want a free lunch.
Wayne Rogers
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As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town.
Irene Dunne
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If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.
Maimonides
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Bertrand Russell
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The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
Jane Austen
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The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
Sebastian Vettel
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When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
Mary Beth Patterson
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Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
Bob Herbert
