#ample

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids." ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. ↗

— Susan George

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I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me. ↗

— Jared Leto

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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#been #buy #children #did #done

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge. ↗

— Judith Light

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. ↗

— John Linder

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