Arthur C. Brooks Quotes
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.Arthur C. Brooks
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
Jack Horner -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
Maeve Binchy -
People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
Camryn Manheim -
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
Ted Cruz -
'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
Victor Koo
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang -
Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
Wale -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
Manny Montana -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
Matthew Reilly -
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.
Marilynne Robinson -
Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
Tanith Lee -
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
Gabrielle Zevin -
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
Arthur C. Brooks