Elihu Root Quotes
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.Elihu Root
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey -
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
Daniel Clowes -
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
Zhang Yimou -
Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
R. A. Salvatore -
The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
Jack Keane -
When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
Verite -
People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
Kate Bush -
I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
Gallagher
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
Zac Posen -
Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
Adam Davidson -
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
Pam Grier -
I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
Owen Wilson
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Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.
T. E. Lawrence -
I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
Lesley Visser -
Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.
Peter Maurer -
I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.
McG -
I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!
Halima Aden -
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root