George William Curtis Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Warren Farrell -
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount -
I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
Taufik Hidayat -
For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
Laura Dern -
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken -
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
Wang Jianlin -
I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Tamsin Egerton -
Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
Rachel Bloom -
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
Walter Dean Myers -
I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
Dan Shechtman
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
Raf Simons -
If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
Randy Pausch -
'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
Garth Nix -
We went to the hospital; it was full. The doctor told me that two hundred had died the day before. I asked the cause of death; he shrugged and said, 'Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.'
Edward R. Murrow -
It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
David Suzuki -
If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun -
The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.
Uwe Reinhardt -
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Albert Einstein -
I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Natasha Lyonne -
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Wendy Kopp -
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis