Empires Quotes - Page 26

• May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Peace, Land, House

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• Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Issues, Years

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• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

  James Hillman

  Loss, United States, Different

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

  Doris Lessing

  Southern, Found, British

  "Damehood. A cosy name that conceals some dubious choices" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2015.

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• I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

  John Malkovich

  Running, Dollars, Want

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• I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

  Sienna Miller

  Powerful, Nervous

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• My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, Okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

  Nicki Minaj

  Mother, Player, Keys

  "Nicki Minaj: Agent Provocateur". Interview with James Patrick Herman, www.elle.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  Viggo Mortensen

  America, Spain, Culture

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• Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Intimate Relationships, People

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• I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

  Gary Oldman

  Long, Sometimes, Accents

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• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  Pat Robertson

  Running, Thinking, America

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• At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Height, England, Moments

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• As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Thinking, Exhibitions, Lines

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• With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

  Justin Sane

  Men, President, Drones

  "Anti-flag's general strike is a soundtrack for occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

  Rob Sheffield

  Twilight, Character, Mvp

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• I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

  Steven Spielberg

  One Day, Want, Sun

  "Spielberg Has Desire to Work With Zhang Yimou". Interview with Liu Wei, usa.chinadaily.com.cn. August 15, 2013.

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• I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

  Steven Spielberg

  Christian, Looks, Actors

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• I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

  Martha Stewart

  Running, Jobs, Queens

  FaceBook post by Martha Stewart from Apr 04, 2016

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• I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Evil, Microsoft

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 9-28-03: QUESTIONS FOR LINUS TORVALDS; The Sharer". Interview with David Diamond, www.nytimes.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.

  Joss Whedon

  Stars, War, Believe

  "20 Things to Know from the AVENGERS Screening and Q&A with Joss Whedon, Who Teases Another Hero and a Second Villain Who Almost Appeared in the Film" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  Felix Dennis

  Advice, Scratches, Wealth

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• Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

  John Oliver

  Drains, British, Feels

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• Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

  Howard Rheingold

  Wine, Sheep, Civilization

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• I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Maps, British

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Machines, World

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