George B. Cortelyou Quotes
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.George B. Cortelyou
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
Iris Apfel -
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Walter Dean Myers -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
Rachel Sklar
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
Kate Winslet -
One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
Sam Walton -
Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
Adam Hamilton -
I just want the fans to be happy, and if they're happy, I'm happy. And yes, most definitely, I am definitely a fan.
Jacob Batalon -
I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac
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Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.
John Mayer -
'Now he's just signed Fall Out Boy, which means more of his attention will go to them that should have gone to The Killers'.
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
Laurence Housman -
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone -
Do you want to be the girl that's envied, or do you want to be the girl that inspires you? Most people don't know that I am super shy and timid, but online people think I have a big personality. Make sure whatever you do has an overall message and has value.
Karen Civil -
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
Bernice King
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
A.J. Cronin -
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
Raf Simons -
There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer -
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.
George B. Cortelyou