Adam Hochschild Quotes
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.Adam Hochschild
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
Dan Pink -
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
Faith Prince -
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma -
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
Ian Fleming -
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
Aaron Rodgers -
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans -
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana -
Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
Obie Trice -
You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
James Monroe -
The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'
F. Melvin Hammond -
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
Edgar Wright -
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild