Nicholas Ii Autocracy Quotes & Sayings

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house. — Ellen Barkin

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity. — Goldie Hawn

The cotton gin made it possible to grow medium- and short-staple cotton commercially, which led to the spread of the cotton plantation from a small coastal area to most of the South. As cotton planting expanded, so did slavery, and slavery's becoming the central institution of the Southern economy was the central precondition of the Civil War. What — Nicholas Lemann

I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form. — William Monahan

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story. — John Gutfreund

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people. — Bob Geldof

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change. — George Papandreou