Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.Alice Duer Miller
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White -
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
Dana Snyder -
Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
Gary Bettman -
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
Sam Altman -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
Pat Buchanan
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
Vince Flynn -
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde -
I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
Ram Charan -
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
Jack Dee -
Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
Abu Bakr -
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Malin Akerman
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
Patricia Ireland -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
Jack Kevorkian -
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
Laura Benanti -
I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
Sam Riley
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The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.
Kevin McCarthy -
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of the means of paying their engagements, made on your account. You may observe that their future power is confined to provide common defence and general welfare of the United States. If they apply money to any other purposes, they exceed their powers. The people of the United States who pay, are to be judges how far their money is properly applied.
David Ramsey -
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Alice Duer Miller