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Graham Greene Quotes

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991

Topics

Love Peace Democracy Clock Years

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

Time World Rich Language Young Poor

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.

Michael Ignatieff

Together Violence Tyranny Religions

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

Sonia Sotomayor

Facts Choose Personal Judges See

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

Stewart Butterfield

Empathy Design Someone You Difficult

Tinker Bell is a great wing woman. And as somebody pointed out to me, she is also a winged woman.

Great Woman Me She Bell Out

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

Power Ignorance Money Politics Runs

I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent basis, I'll be happy.' Of course, then, if that happens for you, and you're lucky, you find some other reason to complain. There's a joke: 'If you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job.'

Job Happy Be Happy Think You Find

I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'

Michael Ramirez

Good Mother Laugh Political Hands

You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

Lisa Vanderpump

Work Funny Day I Am Me Work Hard

I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.

People Better Be Different Learn Try

The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.

Time Amazing Small You Person Huge

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