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John Lewis Quotes

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

John Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1940

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Good Women Power Men Push You

I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' right? It's, like, what am I doing there? This is bizarre.

Megyn Kelly

Myself Cool Doing Vanity Said Lying

Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular soap brand years ago. I was paid a huge amount of money for a mere 30 seconds of screen presence. After that, ads have been a regular feature in my career.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Money Brand Career More First Pay

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Faults Virtues Excess Often Wives

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

Tom Hodgkinson

Laughter Me Doing Games Hand Sight

I got into the weights because I didn't want anybody messing with me. I wanted people to say, 'Oh, he's so big, I don't want to mess with him.' And second of all, I wanted to be great at football. I wanted to be the baddest dude around because I knew what it was like to not be.

Mike Daniels

Great Football People Me Say Want

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Jean de la Bruyere

Power Speak Dangerous Alive Flattery

When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

Deirdre O'Kane

Media You Look Say Independent Just

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

Chevy Chase

Good Friend Fun Lying Question Made

I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.

Courtney A. Kemp

Two Always Everything Things Watch

I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

April Bowlby

Think Chemistry Between I Think Them

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.

Seth Shostak

Space Song Appreciate Cards NASA

What I don't like - and I'm concerned about - as a Houstonian is that the SEC is starting to own Houston... There's more talk about the SEC than there is the Big 12.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Talk More Starting Houston Own Big