Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1892 - November 1, 1970

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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Jimmy Carter

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If I'm at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it's considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I'm going to treat everyone regardless.

Joanne Liu

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I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Jermaine Dupri

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The best way to express rhythm is music.

John Hartford

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Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Jeanne Phillips

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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.

Donna Langley

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I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

Brian May

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I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.

Bow Wow

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I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

William Mapother

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The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.

Peter Milligan

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The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, six weeks before the invasion.

Peter Bergen

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