Curt Siodmak Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz -
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
Patricia Heaton -
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson -
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Abraham Verghese -
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Queen Elizabeth II
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Daisaku Ikeda -
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
Ursula Burns -
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
Warren Rudman
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
Mahatma Gandhi -
You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
Saku Koivu -
What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
Rachel Grace Held -
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
Thomas Sowell -
Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
Katee Sackhoff -
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
Curt Siodmak