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A Quote by Gertrude Stein

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting. — © Gertrude Stein

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

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Governing Governments Interesting

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein
American - Novelist
February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

Richard Perle

Richard Perle

Personally my mind needs occupying. If it isn't, it goes all over the place.

June Brown

June Brown

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

Paul Bremer

Paul Bremer

Well, that’s interesting,” I said. “What’s interesting?” Jack called from the other room. “Something is interesting?” Lend shouted. “No! Nothing!

Kiersten White

Kiersten White

In modern football the position, the placement of the team and occupying spaces is important.

Marcos Alonso

Marcos Alonso

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

Felipe VI of Spain

Felipe VI of Spain

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

Nina Blackwood

Nina Blackwood

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Janet Frame

Janet Frame

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Aristotle

Aristotle

The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.

Van Heflin

Van Heflin

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