I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
James Baker
Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Karl Baker
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
Karl Rove
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Kenneth Baker
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.
Giuliana Rancic
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Newton D. Baker
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
Jennifer Lawrence
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
George Bernard Shaw
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
Dave Mustaine
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
Meg Ryan
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
Samantha Stosur
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
Tommy Mottola
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
Emil Zatopek
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Ben Affleck
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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