Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Marquis de Lafayette

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When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Jocko Willink

LifeBusinessTeamProblemsProblem

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

Jennifer Gilmore

HistoryExperienceImaginationMe

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Maya Rudolph

GuiltLovelyJewishGetAnxious

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

John Hope Franklin

LifeLearningTruthWorldBetter

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Angela Davis

LeadershipTodayPeopleBlackLook

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Sidney Altman

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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

Michel Legrand

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Jose Marti

PoetrySeasonGrainCentury

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

Derek Walcott

PoetryWriteAlwaysKnewWanted

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Philip Treacy

LoveHistoryWalkArchitectureYou

I have things I watch in my downtime - I love 'Scandal.' I don't write political romance, so there's not a direct relation there. But it's something I do just to turn off the brain for a little bit, and just to relax and recharge.

Sylvia Day

LoveRelaxBrainPoliticalWrite

I'd been a fan of old film comedies like Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks movies - the fast-paced dialogue in movies like 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'Twentieth Century' and 'Sullivan's Travels.'

Sean Gunn

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