Chiefs Quotes - Page 5

• Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Girl, Growing Up, Women

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• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

  Howard Hawks

  Movie, Inspiring, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

  George Crook

  Doe, Care, Secure

  George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

  Curt Weldon

  Military, Cells, Secret

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• Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

  Martin Van Buren

  Genius, World, Firsts

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• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, Tasks, World

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• There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fun, Purpose, Why Not

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Profound, Justice, President

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.388, Best Books on

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• Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”

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• I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Native American, Sitting

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• What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

  Mack McLarty

  Italian, White, House

  "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

  Sitting Bull

  Sitting, Spirit, Great Spirit

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Usa, People, Investing

  "The Press Under a Free Government". Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, archive.org. January 17, 1925.

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wedding

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• In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Marine Corps

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• I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

  Red Cloud

  Love, Life, Peace

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• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Brain, Mind, Body

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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Heart, Second Chance

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• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

  Oswald Chambers

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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