Andrew Nikiforuk Quotes
Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
Andrew Nikiforuk
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
Adam Peaty
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
Sam Rockwell
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It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
Orlando Bloom
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
Tariq Ali
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
Narendra Modi
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I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.
Samaire Armstrong
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
Gary Lineker
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
Wang Leehom
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
Maggie Carey
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David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.
Charles Studd
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If you are too proud, you don't do business.
Marc Rich
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I've done a contract with my district. I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay raises, and my family and I are bringing our own health care to Washington, D.C. And my dad taught me as a kid to lead by example - Congress should not have anything better than the American people.
Bobby Schilling
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Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.
T. J. Perkins
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You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.
Christie Hefner
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Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
Andrew Nikiforuk
