Michael Huffington Quotes

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

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WarBodyWillProtectSurgeonOut

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Jim Lehrer

DailyExperienceGratefulI AmNow

Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

Michael Arden

WorkThinkMagicMoreCompanyThan

You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.

Amitabh Bachchan

TimeTogetherAwardYouMeetPlaces

There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

Amy Heckerling

ConfidentDoingYouWrongKnowJust

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Stephen Jay Gould

NatureMyselfPlaceKnowEssence

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

Shirley Manson

GirlWomanBootsBigMTVShirley

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.

Michel Foucault

GovernmentMeClaritySaidMustFar

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.

Diego Klattenhoff

GreatRoadsDayNew YorkPeopleNew

I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.

Demetri Martin

FriendGirlTimeMeThoughtLaugh

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

Archibald Hill

ProgressAdventureSpiritHuman

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

Annette Bening

FamilyNatureLoveCharacterParents

I'm still friends with most of my exes. There are only one or two people that I'll never talk to again.

Sharon Van Etten

PeopleFriendsTalkNeverTwo People

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