Ezra Stiles Quotes

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

Ezra Stiles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1727 - May 12, 1795

Topics

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Art fairs are a lot like professional proms - you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases, you make friends forever. I think that for artists, they can be a bit controversial: they stimulate curiosity, but at the same time, you're always trying to not have your work hung on a wall.

Maurizio Cattelan

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We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

John Wycliffe

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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

Smedley Butler

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One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year.

Robert Brady

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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

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The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

Mira Sorvino

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I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Jay Ryan

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I've always had a plan. Even since, maybe, 12 years old. Really.

Devon Cajuste

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The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

William S. Burroughs

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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

William Osler

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Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

Platon

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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Renee Fleming

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