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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969

Topics

Work Business Politics Chance Battle

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

Jim Harrison

Good Food Pet Waiting Good Food You

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

Joan Cusack

Life Great Man Think Thought Better

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

Trixie Mattel

Mirror People Listening Looking You

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Michelle Paver

Fire Me Story Spark Feel You

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

Molly Parker

Think Play Being Well Concerned Lot

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

Michael Mandelbaum

Government World American Right

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

Josh Lucas

Life Small Think Small Town Opposite

If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.

Christopher Rouse

Life Truth People Sweet Think You

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

Chris Rock

Me Better Doing Play Actor Here

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

Bruce Springsteen

Early Rock First Image Audience Big

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.

Arvind Gupta

Business Book Think Fighting Doing

The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.

Asa Hutchinson

Become Toxic Option Phrase Private