Columba Bush Quotes
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth -
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills -
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Zachary Quinto -
The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
Adam Ostrow -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Abagail Johnson
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
Irvine Welsh -
I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.
Nandan Nilekani -
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
Kary Mullis -
I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
Rachel Dratch -
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Olivia Wilde -
For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
Malorie Blackman -
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles -
I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
Zoe Foster Blake -
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
Rachel Stevens -
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann -
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
Gary Oldman
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In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.
Liz Goldwyn -
I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives...
Paulo Coelho -
People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
Adam Driver -
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
David Steinberg -
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
Lance Henriksen -
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.
Columba Bush