Barbara Jordan Quotes
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.Barbara Jordan
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
Edgar Wright -
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
Ira Sachs -
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike -
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo -
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox -
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
Xavier Niel -
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani -
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
Rachel Zoe -
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Nancy Gibbs
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini -
I have no privacy anymore.
Felix Baumgartner -
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia -
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold S. Geneen
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We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Max de Pree -
Everything you tell me in your last letter, which is to say that to spend more time with me they will give up going to Paris, fills me with the greatest pleasure.. .I find myself much better, and I hope to be back where I was before.. .I am happy to be better to receive my most beloved travelers. This improvement I owe to Molina.
Francisco Goya -
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
Paul J. Meyer -
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
Van Jones -
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan