Leonard Alfred George Strong Quotes

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

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• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Think
  • You
  • Confident

• I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Attention
  • Clothes
  • Too Much

• Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • World
  • Long
  • Rome

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Along

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • Band
  • See

• While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Important
  • Country
  • Strong

• I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Big

• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Eye
  • Security
  • Questions

• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reading

• Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Study

• Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Work

• There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Great
  • Question

• You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Rest

• I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe

• The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

  

  Bob Kane

• Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Home
  • Funny

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Country
  • Travel

• Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

  

  Leonard Alfred George Strong
  • People
  • Country
  • Writers