King George V Quotes

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

King George V

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I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

Johan Cruyff

GoodSomeoneWillAlwaysWhatever

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

John Millington Synge

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There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie

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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

John Thorn

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

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My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

Michael Moore

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The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Christopher Walken

StartYouActingKnowLivingTalk

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Clifford Geertz

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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

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The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

ChangePeopleMeSkiingWorldPlace

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Arthur Levitt

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