Leland Stanford Quotes

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Leland Stanford

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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

HistoryRespectImaginationEmpathy

I'm an Angus King independent.

Jesse Ventura

KingIndependent

I thought I'd be president of the United States.

John McCain

ThoughtPresidentUnitedStates

I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn't pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could've just pulled focus.

Stephen Amell

TimeFocusDoingRememberStudent

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Shirley Knight

GoodNew YorkRichFamousGoalNew

There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.

Lloyd Blankfein

BusinessGovernmentPeopleDoingRun

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

Jules Asner

WomenMenCrazyThinkUsGet

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

Jay Weatherill

WaterCrisisTwoResourcesGlobal

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

Dorothy Hamill

LifeWinningRealityPerfectGoing

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

David Suzuki

LateStopNowGlobal WarmingWarning

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

Chuck Klosterman

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My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

Brad Goreski

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