Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter.[1]
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Easton_Ellis
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Abdullah II of Jordan (1962-1999)
Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein [Arabic: عبد الله الثاني بن الحسين, ʿAbdullāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn Al-Ḥusayn] (born 30 January 1962) has been the King of Jordan since he ascended the throne on 7 February 1999 upon the death of his father Hussein.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Abdullah II of Jordan
Address to the European Parliament (10 March 2015)
@ People thrive where there is mutual respect. Civilisation is built on it. Futures are better for it.
But co-existence must be made, and made again, in every generation. The common good is defended only by vigilance and action. This means more than security measures. Humanity must arm itself with ideas, with justice and with economic and social inclusion.
Today, these challenges have special importance. Our world faces an assault by terrorists with ruthless ambition. The motive is not faith, it is power; power pursued by ripping countries and communities apart in sectarian conflicts, and inflicting suffering across the world.[1]
[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan
Mariska Hargitay (1964- )
Mariska Hargitay
Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (/məˈrɪʃkə ˈhɑːrɡɪteɪ/; born January 23, 1964) is an American actress and producer.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Mariska Hargitay
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariska_Hargitay
Khachik Abrahamyan (1960- )
Khachik Abrahamyan
Khachik Abrahamyan (Armenian: Խաչիկ Աբրահամյան; born January 15, 1960, in Yerevan), is an Armenian artist.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Khachik Abrahamyan
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khachik_Abrahamyan
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961- )
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Louis-Dreyfus
Margaret Cho (1968- )
Margaret Cho
Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, musician and activist.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Margaret Cho
¶ Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
This quote is a profound statement about perception and reality. It suggests that the existence of something doesn’t depend on whether or not it is perceived.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho
Naomi Wolf (1962- )
Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist.[1]
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
Will Smith (1968- )
Will Smith (1968- )
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office and the only one to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.
Fourteen of the nineteen fiction films he has acted in have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million, and four took in over $500 million in global box office receipts. As of 2011, his films have grossed $5.7 billion in global box office. His most financially successful films have been Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Independence Day, the Men in Black films, I, Robot, I Am Legend, Hancock, Wild Wild West, Enemy of the State, Shark Tale, Hitch, and Seven Pounds. He also earned critical praise for his performances in Six Degrees of Separation, Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations for the latter two.
Quotes·Quotation by Will Smith
Will Smith as Alex Hitch Hitchens from Hitch (2005)
¶ Because that's what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly, because otherwise you just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, why in the hell did I jump? But here I am, Sarah, falling, and there's only one person who makes me feel like I can fly. It's you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith
Tom Cruise (1962- )
Tom Cruise (1962- )
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born July 3, 1962), widely known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards for the same movies that are Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999). He started his career with the movie Endless Love. Cruise's first appearance in a major film was in 1981's Taps. His first leading role was in the film Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise played the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and successful 1986 film Top Gun, and also secret agent Ethan Hunt in the series of Mission: Impossible action films.
He has starred in a variety of other successful films such as Rain Man (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004) and War of the Worlds (2005) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol . Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology.
Quotes·Quotation by Tom Cruise
¶ I feel the need... the need for speed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise
Thomas Gibson (1962- )
Thomas Gibson (1962- )
Thomas Ellis Gibson (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor. His best known roles include Daniel Nyland on CBS's Chicago Hope, Greg Montgomery on ABC's Dharma & Greg, and Aaron Hotchner on CBS's Criminal Minds.
Quotes·Quotations by Thomas Gibson
Thomas Gibson as Aaron Hotchner from Criminal Minds
¶ "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." Ernest Hemingway [Criminal Minds 04.01 Mayhem]
@ "I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization." Booth Tarkington [Criminal Minds 04.23 Roadkill]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gibson
Scott Westerfeld (1963- )
Scott Westerfeld (1963- )
Scott Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.
Quotes·Quotation by Scott Westerfeld
Beauty
¶ What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Westerfeld
Roger Babson (1875-1967)
Roger Babson (1875-1967)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967), remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
He was born to Nathaniel Babson and his wife Ellen Stearns as part of the tenth generation of Babsons to live in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Roger attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms before founding, in 1904, Babson's Statistical Organization, which analyzed stocks and business reports. It continues today as Babson-United, Inc..
On March 29, 1900, Babson married his first wife, Grace Margaret Knight.
According to biographer John Mulkern, Babson attributed the business cycle
to Sir Isaac Newton's law of action and reaction.... His pseudoscientific notion, that the laws of physics account for every rise and ebb in the economy, had no more validity than [astrology or alchemy]. But just as astrology gave birth to astronomy and alchemy to chemistry, so, too, did Babson's efforts to explain the economic cycle... lead to the economic breakthrough that revolutionized the business of economic forecasting.
Babson authored more than forty books on economic and social problems, the most widely read being Business Barometers (eight editions) and Business Barometers for Profits, Security, Income (ten editions). Babson also wrote hundreds of magazine articles and newspaper columns. He was a popular lecturer on business and financial trends.
Babson was an investor and sometimes director of many corporations, including some traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He established an investment advisory company Babson's Reports which published one of the oldest investment newsletters in America.
Babson had "ten commandments" he followed in investing and encouraged his readers to do the same. These were:
Keep speculation and investments separate.
Don't be fooled by a name.
Be wary of new promotions.
Give due consideration to market ability.
Don't buy without proper facts.
Safeguard purchases through diversification.
Don't try to diversify by buying different securities of the same company.
Small companies should be carefully scruitinized.
Buy adequate security, not super abundance.
Choose your dealer and buy outright (i.e., don't buy on margin.)
On September 5, 1929, he gave a speech saying, "Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific." Later that day the stock market declined by about 3%. This became known as the "Babson Break". The Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression soon followed.
Babson was the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1940. Election was won by incumbent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the Democratic Party. Babson was surpassed by two other unsuccessful candidates:
Wendell Lewis Willkie of the Republican Party.
Norman Mattoon Thomas of the Socialist Party of America.
Babson founded the Gravity Research Foundation in 1948. The Foundation established a research facility in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire after Babson determined that this location was far enough away from the city of Boston, Massachusetts to survive a nuclear attack.
Quotes·Quotation
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Babson
Robert Brault (1963- )
Robert Brault (1963- )
Robert Brault (born 1963) is an American operatic tenor.[1][2]
Quotes·Quotations
Happiness
¶ Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.
Optimist
¶ Optimist: Someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Breault
Barack Obama (1961~ )
Barack Obama (1961~ )
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn ɵˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Barack Obama
¶ "They're our mentors and they're our role models. They set an example of success and they push us to succeed, encourage us when we're struggling, and they love us even when we disappoint them, and they stand by us when nobody else will." (2009 Father's day)
¶ "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking personal responsibility for creating change.
¶ "Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
¶ "Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1968- )
Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1968- )
Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film Jerry Maguire.
Quotes·Quotation by Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire (1996)
¶ Show me the money!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr.
Brad Pitt (1963- )
Brad Pitt (1963- )
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.[1][2]
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Legends of the Fall (1994). In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In addition, Pitt owns a production company, Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include The Departed (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.
Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted wide publicity.[3] He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally.
Quotes·Quotations by Brad Pitt
¶ You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.
References
[1]^ a b Brad Pitt 'sexiest man alive'. November 2, 2000 [cited November 15, 2008]. BBC News.
[2]^ Jeanna Bryner. Study: Men With 'Cavemen' Faces Most Attractive to Women. August 23, 2007 [cited January 1, 2008]. Fox News.
[3]^ a b The Brangelina fever. The Age (Australia). February 6, 2006 [cited September 8, 2008]. Reuters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt
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