Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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SuccessSheSuccess IsHerMayCome

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Jim Dale

FunnyLaughterPeopleInsecurityYou

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

Jennifer Granholm

ThinkPresidentHighGasLike

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Andrea Corr

LifeGoodPathFocusPeopleBlame

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

John Lydon

MeSocietyYouHonestHorribleJust

You can make fun of everything.

Matt Stone

FunYouEverythingMake

The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.

John Yarmuth

PeopleWildernessThoughtAmerican

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

Tom Smothers

RedYouBadNowMeatRed Meat

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Robin Gibb

HeartDeathBrainWorldYouMore

I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.

Michael Zaslow

LightOutChampagneLeftGuiding

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Jonathan Lethem

WorkMeInformationFictionArts

I think that five, 10, 50 years down the road, we'll be honoring President Barack Obama for ending two wars, stopping the economic hemorrhage and, yes, reducing the number of uninsured. And the polls won't matter.

Donna Brazile

RoadEndingThinkDownMatterTwo

There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.

Douglas Conant

TimeFoodWinOverEvidenceLarge

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