Margaret Mead Quotes
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.Margaret Mead
Quotes to Explore
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
Imogen Poots -
My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
Taye Diggs -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht -
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
Adam Grant -
Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
D. W. Griffith -
I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson -
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant -
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
Kangana Ranaut -
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
Dan Brown -
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
Adam Carolla -
Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
Nastia Liukin
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
G. I. Gurdjieff -
My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.
Angeles Mastretta -
A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
Kent McCord -
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?
P. J. O'Rourke -
For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.
Padma Subrahmanyam -
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead