Basaraba Quotes & Sayings

I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image. — Kim Lyons

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. — Friedrich Schiller

By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany. — Wolfgang Schauble

The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first round the world recession again to begin in East Asia and spread from there to the West, instead of vice versa. That marked the beginnings of the return back 360 degrees around the world of the world economic center to Asia where it had always been before those two eighty-year period of temporary Western ascendance. The stock market crash in Hong Kong and the devaluation of the Thai baht and the Indonesian rupia took only 80 seconds to make themselves felt in the London City and on New York's Wall Street. How much of a cultural lag do we still need for popular perception and social theory to catch up with global reality? — Andre Gunder Frank

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last. — Mason Cooley

The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business — Mario Batali

I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere. — Marshall Brickman

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things. — Theo Jansen

I'm just a sweet little kid. — Bobb'e J. Thompson

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. — Mary Harris Jones

Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. — Ted Cruz

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films. — Anurag Kashyap