J. Edgar Hoover Quotes

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

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• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Design
  • Building

• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Body

• I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Like
  • Same
  • Two

• The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Business
  • Job

• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Memory

• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Nation
  • Rights

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Done
  • Community
  • Comedy

• I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • School
  • Home

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Street
  • Workers
  • Construction

• I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Famous
  • Really

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Early

• I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Business

• In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• We decided to significantly change the nature of the services we are providing to our clients by creating, really, a digital-first company, and digital first in two main directions: first, being the leader in providing digital services to our clients and second, making Accenture the most digitalized organization.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Nature
  • Organization

• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
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