Ronald Reagan Quotes

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Ronald Reagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

Topics

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While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.

John Mackey

GovernmentCountryCreateNewWill

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

Rory Freedman

PeopleWritingNeverGetWriter

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

Michael Ledeen

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Israel is stupid for allowing people to vent their anti-Semitism.

Miriam Margolyes

PeopleStupidIsraelAnti-Semitism

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

Louise Gluck

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The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

Luca Guadagnino

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When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

Jason Isaacs

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I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Janis Ian

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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick

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I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

Ari Graynor

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io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.

Annalee Newitz

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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

William James

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