In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s.… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't… — Leonard Horowitz Copy Share Image
..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic… — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist… — Darryl Cherney Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
The fact that we're at a point today where anybody, anywhere can put a comic book together and get it in front… — Darwyn Cooke Copy Share Image
And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires,… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I think I was always able to laugh a lot at the industry - to be detached from it, even if some… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image