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William Graham Sumner Quotes

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

William Graham Sumner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 30, 1840 - April 12, 1910

Topics

Jealousy Land Individual Property

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

Joan Jett

Work Hard Work Yourself Work Hard

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

John Battelle

Up Industry Where Another Rises

If you don't get it right, what's the point?

Michael Cimino

You Right Point Get

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

Alvin Adams

Power Appreciate Help You Matter

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

Stephen Colbert

Great Man College Small Year First

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

Chef Kitchen You Call Cook Running

Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.

Rob Dyrdek

Me You Fame Street Will Out

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

Robin Wright

Nature Red Me Go Say Never

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Mohsin Hamid

Shadow Growing Up Growing Up Lived

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.

Jon Meacham

Children Time People Believe Look

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Donald Trump

Leadership Think You Why Think Big

I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

Donald Trump

Great Want Will Become President