Jemima Kirke Quotes

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

Jemima Kirke

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MePrideTroubleSayNeverBeen

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

Joe Torre

GoodWorldBeatJustFeels

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

WorldEndSwordAbyssOverUp

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Robert Peel

CommunityTimePoliceAttentionPaid

I was not a comic book kid.

Matt Letscher

BookKidComic BookComic

This country's gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it's ever been.

Steve Bannon

PowerfulCountryMoreGreaterBeen

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

Stanley Schmidt

FashionThinkHardFallingRising

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

Roger Federer

PositiveMeThinkMomentsDifficult

In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.

Martin Van Creveld

TimeGovernmentDemocracyWinTest

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

Jason Momoa

MountainsMeFeelingKnowKindSame

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

Douglas Coupland

FunBrainYouLookBackNobody

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

Colm Toibin

HomeTimeSpaceUniverseAmerica

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

Arne Duncan

EducationStruggleHigher Education

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