Douglas Wilder Quotes

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

Douglas Wilder

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The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

John McKinley

BusinessTechnologySupportPeople

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Steve Carlton

TogetherRoseOverCatalystUsHe

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

Spike Milligan

PeopleSufferingThinkYouSeeing

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Sidney Altman

WorkOpportunityWaitingPhysics

From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.

Roustam Tariko

BusinessOpportunityHopePersonality

I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.

Luke Davies

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I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Jules Asner

WomenMenCrazyThinkUsGet

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

Alice Morse Earle

LifeBeautyEyesLieWallsForward

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

Penelope Cruz

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It can be hard, swapping jerseys when you are losing.

Paulo Dybala

LosingYouHard

I'm always wanting to spread as much positivity as possible, so I really try to keep that the case with my fans and with the campaigns that I do.

Shawn Mendes

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