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Victor Webster Quotes

I was raised doing martial arts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: cameroonian
Birth: February 7, 1973

Topics

Doing I Was Raised Arts Martial Arts

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Art Money Space Dinner Push Places

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

War Think Worth Soldiers Our Having

I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It's a tough neighborhood. There's a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran.

Tough Neighborhood Months Including

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Robert Zoellick

World Bank Must I Came Since Came

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Community Politics Looking Better

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Money Week Year New Old Pay

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Age Time Talent Achieve Will

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Life Experience People Born Go Test

Michael was divorced, lonely, and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies.'

Children Lonely Said Will Him Your

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

Fantasy Slaves Abolition Released

Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.

Money Me Growing Up Lesson Growing

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Society Help Play Important Role

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