Robert G. Allen Quotes

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Robert G. Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1902 - August 19, 1963

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If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

John Morgridge

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I just love striking.

Max Holloway

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Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

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I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

Monica Vitti

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In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.

Jose Angel Gurria

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In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.

Dolores O'Riordan

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Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

Christopher Buckley

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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Constance Baker Motley

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The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver.

Phillipa Soo

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Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.

Penny Lancaster

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If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

Sebastian Faulks

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Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.

Tim Murphy

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