Today Quotes - Page 5

• The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Buddhism, Average

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• Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!

  Nicole Polizzi

  Perfect, Alcohol, Pants

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• I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.

  John Lewis

  Believe, People, May

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

  Michael Savage

  Successful, Comfort, Too Much

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• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Years, Diversity, Fantasy

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• When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Country, Sound, Way

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• If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, White, House

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• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  Tavis Smiley

  Thinking, Issues, Community

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• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  Ted Strickland

  Country, Jobs, Pride

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actors, Television, Lines

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• Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

  Richard Trumka

  People, Pay, Corporations

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• Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Years, Class, America

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• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  Major Taylor

  Boys, Long, Moral

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  College, Filing Cabinet, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

  Peter Thiel

  Growth, Stuff, Print

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• I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

  Ratan Tata

  Two, Car, Ferrari

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• Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

  Robert Trout

  Empires, Never Forget, Defeat

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• In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Facts, Minorities, Homeowners

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• Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

  Todd Tiahrt

  War, Believe, Trying

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• It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

  Fred Upton

  People, Benefits, Might

  "Super Congress Deficit Committee Member Fred Upton: No Cuts To Social Security Benefits" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

  Mark Udall

  Mom, Sibling, Kids

  "Make the Kids to Parks Day Pledge" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

  Tom Udall

  Football, Athlete, Decision

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• That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

  Alan Vega

  Nice, Buttons, Sound

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