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Roger B. Taney Quotes

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: March 17, 1777 - October 12, 1864

Topics

Fear Power Money Corruption Open

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Heart Time You Back Never Asking

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

Space Chicago Outer Space Experiences

I feel like a lot of people have a hard time finding what they do, or they have a job or career and not a passion. That's miserable for me. Just find your purpose; understand that you have one life to live.

Life Live Passion Time Job Purpose

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

Like Theater Notion Recreational

For some people, being bare-faced is wonderful. Others like a little bit of mascara and eyeliner.

Michelle Carter

People Others Some People Little

The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.

Michelle Huneven

Life Reality Impact Literature More

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

Wife Drive First Through Left

The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Myself Fire Mistakes Someone Long

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.

Think I Can Barbecue Capture Taste

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

Good War Good Times Trouble First

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.

William Finnegan

Beach Writing Not Knowing Thoughtful

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

Character School Through Gone Wizard

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