Alexander Haig Quotes
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.Alexander Haig
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Babasaheb -
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins -
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick -
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery -
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Iris Chang -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
Garry Shandling -
I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
Jackson Brundage -
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow -
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
Ted Yoho -
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown -
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
Karen Armstrong -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams
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On being upset by comments that suggest the music on Dirt advocates drug use, quoted in ** Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass. Rolling Stone (November 26, 1992).
Layne Staley -
Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
Henry David Thoreau -
I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
Joe Rogan -
I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
Kate Winslet -
I love being the favourite of every competition.
Katie Taylor -
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
Alexander Haig