Anthony Trollope Quotes

'I am ready to obey as a child; - but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.'

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• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Security
  • Against
  • Airport

• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Said
  • Going
  • Phones

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Looks
  • Insecurities
  • Pour

• I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Morning
  • Sports
  • Door

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • School
  • Company

• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Patience
  • Little

• I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.

  

  Larry David
  • Driving
  • Still
  • Yeah

• I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Private Life

• You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

  

  T.I.
  • Work
  • Know
  • Audience

• Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Day
  • Nothing

• We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Right
  • Against

• Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Music
  • Words

• We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • People
  • World
  • Personality

• The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men
  • Single
  • Bridge

• Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Die

• 'I am ready to obey as a child; - but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.'

  

  Anthony Trollope