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Self-interest in Filipino politics was openly celebrated.
~ Sterling Seagrave
Bill Clinton was being celebrated that evening, which I immediately thought was bizarre since Clinton signed DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, and implemented Don't Ask, Don't Tell but then I remembered that GLAAD had also honored Brett Ratner the year after he'd (innocuously, I thought) jokingly told the moderator during a Q&A after a screening of one of his movies that "rehearsal is for fags" and was forced to repent
~ Bret Easton Ellis
In one celebrated incident, an analyst who had the chutzpah to recommend that Trump's Taj Mahal bonds be sold because they were unlikely to pay their interest was summarily fired by his firm after threats of legal retaliation from "The Donald" himself. (Later, the bonds did default.)
~ Burton G. Malkiel
research analysts were increasingly paid to be bullish rather than accurate. In one celebrated incident, an analyst who had the chutzpah to recommend that Trump's Taj Mahal bonds be sold because they were unlikely to pay their interest was summarily fired by his firm after threats of legal retaliation from "The Donald" himself. (Later, the bonds did default.)
~ Burton G. Malkiel
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
Your extracurricular activities are definitely somewhat lackluster, Annie." "What? Being the daughter of a celebrated criminal doesn't count as an extracurricular activity?" "No," Scarlet said. "A case could be made for poisoning your ex-boyfriend however.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Note how stereotypical the traits are that he assigns to her – she could be almost any woman celebrated in courtly love poetry.
~ Bruce Fink
With apologies to Austin Ruse and the National Review, it's passages like this, not any endorsement of the drug-fueled, last-minute allnighter, that explain why Hunter Thompson will always be celebrated by young people. It had nothing to do with drugs, the F word, or being cool, and everything to do with the fact that Thompson never lost his sense of appropriate outrage, never fell into the trap of accepting that moral compromise was somehow a sign of growth and adulthood. Both
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
~ Ezra Miller
Ushas was not the most celebrated of soulscapers, but she was one of the most glamorous soulscaper currently available for commision.
~ Storm Constantine
New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
~ Patty Jenkins
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
~ George Ayittey
Progressives celebrated Holmes' assertion that government should be able to exercise almost untrammeled police powers as long as government asserts what would come to be called a "rational basis" for exercises of this power. And a mere assertion should suffice.
~ George F. Will
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
~ Plutarch
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
~ Nick Moran
The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.
~ Carolyn Porco
Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square . . .
~ Tom Holt
poverty which had celebrated a hundred thousand silver and golden jubilees.
~ Khushwant Singh
Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused to pay the ransom, she was sold to a pillow house, where she rose to become the celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and ruler of Lys in all but name. Alas, her tale, however fascinating, has no bearing upon our present history.)
~ George R.R. Martin
How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.
~ Gerald Morris
The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.
~ Jürgen Renn
I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.
~ Nick Foles
Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
~ James Lankford
With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on a 'total ban' of Muslims entering the United States.
~ Ben Rhodes