Edmund Morris Quotes
Speaker Reed's wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.Edmund Morris
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
Uday Kotak -
To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
Gary Jennings -
I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert -
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson -
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
Aaron Huey
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
Warren Farrell -
Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
Warren Farrell -
You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.
Rahul Gandhi -
I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
Hillary Clinton -
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
Eleanor Roosevelt -
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
Antonio Porchia -
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
Jimmy Swaggart -
I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.
David Krumholtz -
I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.
Jason Fried -
Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
Artur Davis -
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
James E. Faust
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
Terence McKenna -
'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
John le Carre -
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
Sam Ervin -
It won't be that expensive, the script is fun, the guys just love this thing, and with all of that, the world is just ready for the Muppets again. It's strange that there hasn't been one for so long. I think there were a lot of political reasons for why that was the case but it's just exciting that now it's going to happen.
Nicholas Stoller -
I think that fiction has a certain power.
Jesmyn Ward -
Speaker Reed's wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.
Edmund Morris