Alistair Cooke Quotes
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
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When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
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What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?
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Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.
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Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.
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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
