Leland Stanford Quotes
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
Sam Graves
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
Ted Stevens
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Jackie Chan
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
Jack Nicklaus
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
Ralph Lauren
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. King
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
Gail Sheehy
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I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
N. K. Jemisin
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
Ted Cruz
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I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.
Zoe Sugg
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The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.
Jenna Wortham
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Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels.
Elinor Ostrom
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Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.
Elif Safak
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American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.
George Packer
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
Leland Stanford