Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Schlessinger

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

Brandi Carlile

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.

Daniel Roselle

UC Berkeley has always held a special attraction for me. It has such a storied history, and I like how the university looks at the world from a humanitarian and activist viewpoint. It also has a good history department.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

John le Carre

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.

O. J. Simpson

When will you Australians learn? In America we stopped using corporal punishment, and things have never been better! The streets are safe. Old people strut confidently through the darkest alleys. And the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer-programming abilities. So, like us, let your children run wild and free, because, as the old saying goes, ""let your children run wild and free"".

Theo Walcott

I am so pleased to be joining Arsenal, a club I have admired for a long time. Coming to Arsenal will give me the opportunity to work with world-class players every day and play football at the highest possible level. It is a strange day because I am also very sad to be moving from Southampton. I am leaving many friends and some great coaches who have been so important to my career so far, but I leave with many great memories from the club. I am now really looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and working hard as an Arsenal player.

Melanie Berry

Bryan is one of Canada's most admired artists and one of our leading ambassadors.

Sophia Collier

My grandmother was quite an intrepid woman, ... She was somebody I admired a great deal, who took an interest in me and encouraged me to be all I could be and get out in the world.

Brad Adams

This is sure to make the AIDS crisis worse.

Baruch Spinoza

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Guns Roses

If Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS / And all the broke (people) passed away. / You're telling me if my grandmother is in the NBA / right now she'd be OK, / but since she was just a secretary working for the church for 35 years, things gotta stop right here.

Phil Lilienthal

I try to stay away from the politics of AIDS. But the people have to know that HIV does lead to the AIDS virus and education will make a huge difference.

Maria Mitchell

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

George Soros

Over half of all AIDS cases involving children are directly related to unclean syringes,

Don Rittner

Using technology to educate is an incredibly effective tool that reaches kids on another level. Kids today live in a multimedia world and visual stimulation aids in the learning process. Talking about history is static but, with these movies, history comes to life.

Bruce Vilanch

When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Lleyton Hewitt

There's no doubt in my mind that it's not the greatest surface for injuries either. I think it causes a lot of friction on your body.

Elizabeth Ward

The death rate overall has fallen considerably. Even though we've made progress in reducing the death rate overall, we actually have two causes of death that are continuing to rise.

Chuck Klosterman

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Simon Sinek

All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.

John Piper

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He had to really work for it tonight. He didn't really get anything in bundles. He had to really work for it, but being the consummate team player that he is, he was looking for his teammates.

Ivan Seidenberg

Dave is a consummate financial expert -- a premier example of the wealth of financial and operational talent we have at Verizon, ... We will miss him, and we will always be grateful for the invaluable contributions he made to the creation of Verizon.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Ken Duberstein

There are only two United States senators who have a truly national constituency. One's name is Ted Kennedy and one's name is John McCain,

Michael Owen

I am sure some people will say John or Steve are more obvious skippers but I like to think that I have people's respect.

Jack Campbell

From the third inning on, he was the John Lambert we're used to. He was really in charge.

Robert McClure

The American people are always well-served in having a person like John Palmer as their public trustee." ()

Robert Brown

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

Steve Jordan

John wanted to make a statement that night, and he was able to do that.

Tom Caudill

John really makes us go. When John plays well, we play well.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Dave Bautista

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rupert Murdoch

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Robert Browning

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Vandana Shiva

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.

Jared Diamond

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

Danny Glover

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Robbie Robertson

making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.

Sherman Alexie

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

Sitting Bull

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

Isabel Wilkerson

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

Geronimo

I was born where there were no enclosures.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

Shahid Kapoor

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

Vladimir Putin

We are working in other areas [like ALROSA] as well, so there are no radical changes to our position. It is not the case when we have to, as we say, make a lot of fuss about it. In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost.

Emma Watson

I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Jane Goodall

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

Jane Goodall

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

Charles Clarke

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

bell hooks

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.