Elaine Sciolino Quotes
I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?Elaine Sciolino
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
J. J. Watt -
You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
J. Smith-Cameron -
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth -
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
Ozwald Boateng -
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra -
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
Rachel Nichols -
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
M. J. Rose -
I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus -
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Parker Palmer
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa -
I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
Carl Hiaasen -
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
Larry Wilcox -
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
Iain Banks -
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
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You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
Bobby Moynihan -
You are going to have bad days and have good days.
Lou Ferrigno -
We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.
Divyanka Tripathi -
I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?
Elaine Sciolino