Lincoln Steffens Quotes
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.Lincoln Steffens
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
Sam Hunt -
More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle -
One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
Dan Buettner
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
Yair Lapid -
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
J. J. Abrams -
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Ted Nugent -
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
Daniel Barenboim -
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel -
I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
Barry Sternlicht -
Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
T. B. Joshua -
If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
Sam Graves -
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Zadie Smith -
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
Joe Biden -
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
Angela Duckworth -
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
J. C. Ryle -
I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.
Emily Perkins -
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
Lincoln Steffens