Ameen Rihani Quotes
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.Ameen Rihani
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
Calvin Harris -
In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
Sam Trammell -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
Patrick Macnee -
In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
Otto Loewi
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
Damon Lindelof -
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
Vernon L. Smith -
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. Naipaul -
Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
Carl Lewis -
You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
Laura Ziskin -
There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.
Vicki Lawrence
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I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'
Taylor Negron -
in the summertime sometimes i sleep 'macho': ah, white t-shirt, no underpants. Sleeping macho looks very attractive on a man. I feel like it helps me breathe. 21
Ze Frank -
If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
Ariel Winter -
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
Douglas Rushkoff -
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Jan Morris
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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
Chance The Rapper -
I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
Rebecca Ferguson -
The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale; Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to 'Good Will Hunting,' ... It was enormously heartfelt and, ultimately, nobody could deny being moved by his story.
Ben Affleck -
The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.
Joseph David-Jones -
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
David Lynch The Platters -
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
Ameen Rihani