John Templeton Quotes

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

John Templeton

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StepChurchTraditionNewOutUp

I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.

Joe Mansueto

WorkBestPeopleEnvironmentYou

I leave a $100 bill and a note to the housekeeper at every hotel I've ever been in. It's important to write that they're recognized and appreciated.

Jim Irsay

HotelImportantWriteLeaveBeen

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

John B. S. Haldane

FearResearchThinkPresentLong

You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.

Jeremy Clarkson

PeopleWorldStoryInternetYouOut

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

Robert Downey, Jr.

GoodThinkLookBadYearsPretty

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Russell Brand

JustLabelBad-BoyAssumption

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

StrengthLiveMusicPowerPeopleMe

I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine.

Mary Steenburgen

CloudsFeelYouTryMoreImpress

Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.

Lisa Madigan

TechnologySmartDownLightsKnow

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

Devon Werkheiser

GirlWordsMeBackMove OnPage

My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'

Doris Kearns Goodwin

MeBookSayingLongYouWrong

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

Craig Bruce

MeBelieveUniverseFoolishAgainst

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