George Bailey Quotes
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
Pat Buchanan -
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand -
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
Hans Rosling -
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
Yogi Berra -
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
J. B. Pritzker
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
Gail Sheehy -
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Quentin Tarantino -
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
Eddie Campbell -
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Edmund White -
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
Jackie Speier -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
Ted Yoho -
The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
Ted Demme -
Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
Venus Williams -
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
Wayne Rogers -
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'
Taylor Mali -
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
Tariq Ali
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But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status.
Edward Jenks -
It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
Omari Hardwick -
Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
Kate Williams -
I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.
Walt Mossberg -
I want to do something big, something important.
George Bailey