William Burnham Woods Quotes
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.William Burnham Woods
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
Pat Buchanan -
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle -
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren Mitchell -
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
Aaron Huey -
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin -
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
Wayne Coyne
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz -
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Barry Bonds -
I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
Pat Nixon -
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan Quisenberry -
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
Naval Ravikant -
When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
Becki Newton
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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
Anton Chekhov -
I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
James Comey -
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.
Chance The Rapper -
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire -
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
Lee Daniels -
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
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I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
Pina Bausch -
No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
Katherine Dunn -
'A cure for old age is a very common wish,' Kurtz observed. 'Dashed slug-a-beds want to be shot by a jealous husband, not a nurse bored with emptying the bedpan.'
Charles Stross -
Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.
Dustin Hoffman -
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
Mark Kirk -
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham Woods