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The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times,… — James Redford Copy Share Image
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
To me, the problem with the president is that he takes very authoritarian actions in terms of attacking democratic institutions and then… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Since the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, final responsibility for significant management decisions lies with the Commissioner's Office in consultation with… — David Stern Copy Share Image
I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast"… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own… — Jason Kidd Copy Share Image
It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In terms of favourite movies then, I like Lion King. Something more recent would be Alice in Wonderland; it'd be kind of… — Tetsuya Nomura Copy Share Image
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was always special, you know? And not special, like, He's gonna be important, he's gonna be president. He was special… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image