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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Hat Speak Ready President More Drop

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Jim Leach

Think Political America Violence

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Jim Valvano

Dreams Dreamer You Dream Know Dead

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

John J. Mack

Wait Right Up Ethical Give Hardest

I am the only Republican Congressman who represents a borough within New York City, a city of 8.5 million people.

Michael Grimm

I Am New York People City New Only

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

Steve Carlton

Point Release Final Fingers Your

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

Steven Pinker

Personality Same Same Thing Thing

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

Shuji Nakamura

Research Never Started Laser Led

One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine its added value - namely, the difference between the value of its outputs, that is, the goods and services it produces, and the costs of its inputs, such as the raw materials and energy it consumes.

Michael Spence

Value Energy Better Measure Way

I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.

Christopher Voss

Hostage Wanted

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Clara Schumann

Happiness Art Imagination Picture

I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?

Powers Boothe

Character Mind You Know Want Kind

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Pete Earley

Ignorance People Think Deserve Well