George B. Cortelyou Quotes

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

George B. Cortelyou

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
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• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
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• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
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• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

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• I don't think about records.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
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• I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Gangster

• It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Night
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• A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Mind
  • May
  • Light

• After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
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• When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
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• There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
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• If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
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  • Art

• Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
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• The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Men

• I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Live
  • Relationship
  • Question

• I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Eyes
  • Dog
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• I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Society

• All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • World
  • Child
  • Welcome

• It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

  

  Kevin Macdonald

• I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up
  • Help
  • Morning

• The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

  

  George B. Cortelyou
  • People
  • Winning
  • Breakdown