Gertrude Atherton Quotes

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

Gertrude Atherton

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• Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Professional

• In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Up
  • Black
  • Sixties

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Men
  • Think
  • Faithful

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Acting

• Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • Skills
  • Technological

• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Race

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Imagination

• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Lies
  • Public
  • Spoken

• There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Cold
  • Emotions

• I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Relationship
  • Inspiration

• The private sector is the innovation engine of our economy, and more private-sector businesses and organizations than ever are recognizing that training, promoting, and retaining women is essential to their continued competitiveness - and their bottom line.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Women
  • Training
  • Innovation

• The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Cold

• In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Achieve
  • Failed
  • Targets

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.' Unfortunately, at the time Arnold was holding a woman over his head and looking up her dress.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Time
  • California

• What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Trying
  • California
  • Innocent

• If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Irish
  • Wishes

• California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • California
  • Vices
  • Beauties