Leland Stanford Quotes

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

Leland Stanford

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WomenBestManSelfishThoughtView

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

John Barrymore

BeautifulWifeWordsToo

In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'

Joel Kinnaman

PeoplePoliticalTestWhyHighLike

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

John Glenn

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I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Andrea Barrett

LivePeopleWorldDetailsMusicians

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

John Thorn

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It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

Steve Hackett

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I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.

Stanley Druckenmiller

WorkMeFinancialEconomicGoing

I have never felt that I am a star. It never came to my mind.

Sridevi

I AmMindNeverStarFeltCame

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

Simon McBurney

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We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

Tommy Thompson

LostManufacturingWorkforceHalf

I've never liked playing golf. I prefer to be on the treadmill to keep in shape.

Robert Budi Hartono

GolfNeverShapePlayingKeepLiked

This whole 'Mondo' thing started when I saw Jack White perform at Coachella a couple of years ago. It was like a religious set, man.

Joshua Ostrander

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