Quotes with subject-matter

Quotes 81 till 100 of 700.

  • Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Bernard Goldberg As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • George Carlin As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Arlen Specter As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Robert Collier As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brad Meltzer As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Myriam Miedzian As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
    Bertil Ohlin
     
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bill Flores As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Harper Lee As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Bill Rancic Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Brendon Burchard At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Benny Blanco Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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