Georges Simenon Quotes
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
Ramez Naam -
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa -
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba -
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
Ted Danson -
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso -
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Harold Coffin
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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
Kabir Bedi -
Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
Rafael dos Anjos -
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
Patrick Duffy -
You give me the feeling that the universeWas made by something more than humanFor something less than human.But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.
Randall Jarrell -
In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.
Samuel Gompers -
The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
Oliver Cromwell
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There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.
Avigdor Lieberman -
It’s still a pretty sexist world out there and someone’s got to stand up and say something.
Eliza Dushku -
In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we affirmed through law that men equal under God are also equal when they seek a job, when they go to get a meal in a restaurant, or when they seek lodging for the night in any State in the Union.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
Jason Silva -
I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.
Keith Coogan -
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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In order to deceive melancholy, you must keep moving. Once you stop, it wakens, if in fact it has ever dozed off.
Emil Cioran -
We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
Jack Dangermond -
Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
Randy Pausch -
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
Stephen Covey -
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Georges Simenon