I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
~By Dick Gregory ~
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.
~By Robert Toombs ~
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
~By Iris Chang ~
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
~By Gene Mauch ~
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
~By Matt Lucas ~
Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
Language cares.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
~By Jacques Chirac ~
It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
~By Tony Visconti ~
It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.
~By Alex Cox ~
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
~By John Steinbeck ~
So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
~By Randall Terry ~
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
~By Joe Paterno ~
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.
~By John Freeman ~
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
~By Richard Hell ~
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
~By Peter Buck ~
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
~By Colin Powell ~
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.
~By Jason Dohring ~
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
~By Robert Brustein ~
The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.
~By Dennis C. Blair ~
We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
~By Gene Simmons ~
What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
~By Jared Leto ~
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
~By Jean Rhys ~
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
~By Harry Houdini ~
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
~By David Brooks ~
Science is but an image of the truth.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
~By Susan Collins ~
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
~By Jo Ann Davis ~
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
~By Andrew Shue ~
I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.
~By Kent McCord ~
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
~By Queen Latifah ~
Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
~By Chris Chocola ~
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
~By Steve Blake ~
I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.
~By Pete Waterman ~
I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.
~By Rich Lowry ~
Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
~By Thomas Paine ~
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
~By Michael Caine ~
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
~By Steve Brown ~
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
~By Bill Alexander ~
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.
~By Michael Newdow ~
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.
~By Diana Ross ~
If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
~By Ernestine Rose ~
In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
~By Tim Bishop ~
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
~By Tom Landry ~
Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
~By John Pomfret ~
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
~By Jock Sturges ~
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
~By Bruce Greenwood ~
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
~By Alexis Korner ~
And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.
~By Steven Pinker ~
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
~By Toni Morrison ~
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
~By Michael Moore ~
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~By Mark Twain ~
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