Smedley Butler Quotes

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

Smedley Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1881 - June 21, 1940

Topics

CityAmericanPlaceOilCubaMexico

When people have passion there's nothing they can't do.

Joe Nichols

PassionPeopleNothing

I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.

Megan Hilty

ExperiencePlayJust BecauseSayOut

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

John Negroponte

SupportCountryHardOutConsensus

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Robert Smith

MeSomeonePageNeverAnything

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Matthew Lesko

SocietyTalkingInformationNowBeen

Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I've been a Rams fan since I was a kid.

Jeff Fisher

MeGameKidUpBeenFan

Shiv Nadar University was established in 2011, and our first batch graduated in 2015. The first batch mostly had engineering courses and a B.Sc. programme in Mathematics.

Shiv Nadar

MathematicsEngineeringFirstOur

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

Robin Day

AnythingEverDesigns

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Ruth Gordon

AgeThinkNothingGrayMustDates

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

Ryan Adams

GoodMusicRideMeIdeasThink

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Mike Ditka

TalentEffortSituationTragedy

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

Michael Trevino

FatherMotherSonImmigrantsBorn

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