Edward Ball Quotes

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Edward Ball

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I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

Jim DeMint

GoalsProblemNowWashingtonGot

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.

Robert J. Shiller

WillPresidentNeverClearBeenHe

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

Anna Paquin

DirectionYouJumpNothingActor

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Angela Ahrendts

RelationshipBuildingThinkEmployees

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

FreedomPeopleFreeRememberLiberty

Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

AgeTimeOld AgeLookProtectOver

The fact of the matter is, people care about their own human interests: the people they love, their families, and their communities.

Tom Steyer

LovePeopleCareMatterHumanOwn

To find money to make a film, you have to write maybe 50 pages to explain what you'd like to do, what the film will be, but everybody lies. Because he doesn't know what the film will be. Everybody writes 50 pages and sends it to a TV channel, a producer, to get money, but everybody lies. Or else your film is not interesting.

Rithy Panh

MoneyInterestingYouFindKnow

Eugene Levy is my closest friend.

Martin Short

FriendClosestClosest Friend

A guy like me, yes, I am good in terms of championship races, and that's where I dominate - but in terms of running fast times, I haven't quite done that.

Mo Farah

GoodI AmMeFastDoneYes

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

Josh Bowman

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Jose Saramago

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