Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Bonnefous

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.

Mark Allison

Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.

George Takei

So I've been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it's because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.

Ron Wyden

My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, ... In the past I have not hesitated to vote against several of the president's nominees to the Courts of Appeal when they carried the ideological and activist baggage that I believe would be disruptive to our society.

Nicola Sturgeon

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Tom Morello

Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions.

Roberto Clemente

My father was the 87th Latino to be in the major leagues, but he was the first one ... to be able to speak up and become an activist against prejudice, not only in baseball but also in society, and that took a lot to be able to do that.

John Sununu

Naturally, there exist concerns about what activist courts might do to undermine these rights and the Defense of Marriage Act, ... But it is premature to amend the Constitution based upon a hypothetical scenario.

John Trudell

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio.

mucor dedaliv

Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is a GOOD MARRIAGE.

Jussi Hyoty

Motorola is putting up a good fight ? the only real challenger to Nokia. But its portfolio hasn't the same attraction as Nokia at the moment.

Wilhelm Busch

Max and Moritz for their part found no attraction in it.

Randy Thomas

If a person deals with same-sex attractions, they are told that the only way for them to be happy is to identify as a gay and to embrace their sexual orientation. What we contend is that a person who has same-sex attraction can identify any way that they want to.

Esther Williams

I felt a powerful attraction to Victor Mature. I was married, but all the passion and most of the love in that marriage were gone, or going.

Jack Schultz

Traditionally, we have looked at economic development as job attraction and job retention.

Martha Beck

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

Paulo Freire

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

Tom Brokaw

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Jackie Speier

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

Jorma Taccone

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.

Gene Luen Yang

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

Carol W. Greider

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

Lene Hau

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Mike Olson

With this new version, we continue to enhance Berkeley DB Java Edition with a focus on performance for highly concurrent systems. Berkeley DB Java Edition is the ideal choice for developers seeking fast, local persistence with zero administration and a pure Java solution.

Ron Grantski

I said, 'I think your Berkeley fishing trip is a fishy story,' ... girlfriend.

Dave Fogarty

National retail is Target and Wal-Mart, and we'll never have that kind of retail here, not that we'd turn them away, but because there is no place to put it. We'd have to rezone West Berkeley to accommodate that kind of store, and we won't do that. It's got to be relatively small shops, most likely independent.

Michael McDowell

People in Berkeley are suckers for a cause. They're really willing to put their hands where their hearts are.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Sanford Rubenstein

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Tony Blair

Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find.

Kerry Carr

My expectations for the weekend were always held in check. I had never seen the team perform.

Alafair Burke

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Heidi Perlman

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Cy Alexander

I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.

Craig Jones

She was in a position of trust as a public servant, so we held her to a higher standard than we normally would.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Kylie Jenner

Makeup looks better if your skin is not dry. And sometimes, if my skin peels, then it's all just bad. Basically, take care of your skin to make your makeup look nice.

Greg Gorbatenko

Looks like you can pretty much sew this one up,

Jay Frye

Looks like they (Notre Dame) will offer both.

Robert Prince

Looks like the truck was stuck in the snow.

David Williams

Looks like somebody had a wrestling match in them.

Jane Moore

Looks like he's going to have to settle for just being the stupidest.

Paul McCurtain

Looks like everything occurred on the scene at the house." ()

Brian Williams

Look on the left. There's something that looks like a bulldozer.

Neel Mehta

Security software is usually the first inline that looks at incoming data.

Tony Sabatino

Scott is a special player. He does it all.

David Wright

No one's going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams. To me, that was the only thing that was on today. We didn't play well enough offensively or defensively.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams.

Ai-jen Poo

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education