Gossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALPrivacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
AGA KHAN IV -
I think because I went to school and because I’m a student, I’m so open and I’m a sponge, and I just wanna learn everything to make sure everything is perfect.
SAWEETIE -
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL -
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
FINNEAS -
You just try to make it part of your DNA. That’s what the challenge is, really.
BRENDAN GLEESON -
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVING -
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
GEORGE MICHAEL -
The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.
AL DAVIS -
For people of different faiths to coexist, it’s going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it’s a process of time.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI -
By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter, we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the Whole Universe itself.”
ROBERT HOOKE -
It’s okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do.
CAMILA CABELLO -
I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
God didn’t have time to create a nobody, just a somebody. I believe that each of us has God given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. Each person is unique and special.
MARY KAY ASH -
I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we’re doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.
BOB CORKER -
So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.
BRIAN D. MCLAREN