Don Marquis Quotes

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Don Marquis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

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It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.

Jimmy Butler

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There is a need to be the best you can be. You can't panic; you concentrate. When I run up to the hurdles, I'm very nervous, but I'll tend to think about technical things to keep my mind focused.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

John Foster Dulles

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You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

Michael Bloomberg

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Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

Stephen Chow

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Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Star Jones

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'Argo' is a work of art.

Tom Sizemore

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I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

Mitt Romney

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'Carbs' is the first song I wrote, and 'I Wanna Boi' is the second song I wrote. I am very proud of every song I made since then. Anything I'm not proud of I wouldn't show people.

Liv Bruce

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When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Brandon Sanderson

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The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.

Bradley A. Smith

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I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

Brittany Bowe

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