Curtis Sliwa Quotes

Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

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• A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Production
  • Lot
  • Animation

• Conforming is not cool.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Cool
  • Conforming

• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Know
  • Hate

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Home
  • History

• Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Live
  • Spiritual

• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Me
  • Needs

• Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Nothing
  • Legislative

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • American
  • Cool

• I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Idea
  • Embrace
  • Entertainer

• Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • People
  • Look
  • Try

• Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Strong

• Worms seize leaves and other objects, not only to serve as food, but for plugging up the mouths of their burrows; and this is one of their strongest instincts.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Up
  • Food

• I tell you I cannot bear it! I shall do something desperate if this life is not changed soon. It gets worse and worse, and I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• Now or never was the time.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Time

• Definitely was eating bad after surgery. I was overweight by, like, 20, 30 pounds.

  

  Anthony Bennett
  • Eating
  • Surgery
  • Overweight

• Our employees chose SK on belief that they will be happier working here and that the company will make the society happier.

  

  Chey Tae-won
  • Society

• Most of what I knew of George VI was from watching 'The King's Speech!'

  

  Jared Harris
  • King

• The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Remember
  • Enemy
  • Forget

• Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

  

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