Arthur C. Brooks Quotes

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

Arthur C. Brooks

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I've been in the shadows my whole career.

Jimmy Napes

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If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

Jesse Jackson

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When I was a kid, 'Quantum Leap' was one of my favorite TV shows.

Jenna Wortham

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The more I learned about real pirates, the more exciting they seemed to me. They appeared to be even more dramatic than pirates of the movies or TV shows.

Robert Kurson

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I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.

Steven Biko

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I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

Tom Holland

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First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

Mitchell Reiss

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In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

Louise Slaughter

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When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

Lisa Guerrero

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Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.

Clara Shih

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In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.

Bruce Forsyth

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There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral.

Richard Dawkins

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