Dick Gregory Quotes

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Dick Gregory

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I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12.

Joe Heck

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A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

John B. Keane

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'In the Grace of Your Love' is a beautiful, eerie dance song.

Max Joseph

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I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

Matt Drudge

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English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

Mia Hamm

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We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

Robert Ben Garant

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The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

Robyn Davidson

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Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.

Michael Strahan

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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

Conrad Burns

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Pope Benedict XVI

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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Richard Whately

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