Michael Korda Quotes

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

Michael Korda

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Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

Johannes Tauler

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I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Maxine Waters

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A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Rita Mae Brown

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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

Don Adams

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I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

Colin Trevorrow

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I'm not going to be very picky. If something comes to me and I want to do it, I'll do it.

Cobie Smulders

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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Bob Beauprez

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Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.

Wylie Dufresne

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I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

Suzy Amis

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Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Tim Matheson

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Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

Nigella Lawson

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