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No one ever contributed anything to my designs. -- Robin Day
I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture. -- Steve Guttenberg
Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem. -- Kent Conrad
He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley) -- Bing Crosby
Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair. -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name -- Anton Szandor LaVey
I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. -- Jack Vance
America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness. -- Charles B. Rangel
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?" -- Marianne Williamson
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. -- Will Rogers
Guys want to be respected and acknowledged. They want to feel what they contributed matters. -- Charlie Sheen
I have made a personal decision NOT TO WORRY. This has tremendously contributed to my happiness!! -- Sandra M. Michelle
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army. -- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. -- Norman Douglas
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army. -- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. -- Wallace D. Wattles
I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. -- Frank Zappa
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch. -- Eugene Jarecki
You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others. -- John C. Maxwell
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. -- Lisa Morton
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. -- Jose Rizal
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. -- Luke Ford
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation." -- Luke Ford
Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations. -- Woody Allen
I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal. -- Julie London
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. -- Mark Twain
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success. -- Charles Kennedy
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. -- B. B. King
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession." -- Mark Twain
Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market. -- Evan Goldberg
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. -- George William Foote
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous. -- Edward Teller
The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong. -- Tony Bennett
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career. -- Simon Sinek
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order. -- Robert Kennedy
I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English. -- Masiela Lusha
I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. -- Mitt Romney
Be grateful for every thing good and bad that comes to you. For all things have contributed to your advancement. -- J. P. Blake
All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success! -- Martin Villeneuve
All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success! -- Martin Villeneuve
It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins. -- Jonathan Agnew
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. -- Daniel Tammet
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. -- Yvette Clarke
Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created. -- Tracy Morgan
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Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. -- Clayton Christensen
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs -- Michelle Alexander
We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. -- Robert Casey
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. -- Robert Smithson
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed. -- Jimmy Heath
I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it. -- Andre Holland
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. -- Richard Eyre
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. -- Neal Barnard
We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism. -- Nat Hentoff
It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live. -- Eugene V. Debs
In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle. -- Marc Garneau
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose. -- Joy Bryant
But, when it comes to global warming, the public- at-large really doesn't know whom to believe anymore. And NASA has contributed to that confusion. -- Walter Cunningham
The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business. -- Bing Crosby
When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now. -- Akemi G
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. -- George Orwell
You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed. -- Jorge Posada
Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself. -- Marianne Williamson
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything. -- Gilles Deleuze
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state. -- Jerry Brown
The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise. -- Richard A. Epstein
I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases. -- Shinya Yamanaka
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. -- Jurgen Habermas
Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance. -- F. Murray Abraham
It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food. -- Robert Zoellick
I think [President George W. Bush] contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line. -- Jerry Greenfield
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him. -- L. Ron Hubbard
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. -- George Westinghouse
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that. -- Ravi Shankar
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. -- Thomas Malthus
I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today. -- Randeep Hooda
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him -- Elbert Hubbard
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy. -- Harry Seidler
If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world! -- Noel Ignatiev
German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this. -- Adolf Hitler
For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair. -- Thomas Hunt Morgan
Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development. -- Ibn Warraq
The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it. -- Tim Kaine
We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible. -- Marc Garneau
It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong -- Louis Armstrong
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. -- Brian Clough
Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are. -- Omar Suleiman
If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven. -- Paul Crouch
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock. -- Arthur Rock
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed. -- Christopher A. Sims
Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.' -- Liz Williams
It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused. -- Edward Snowden
Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed. -- Hugh Sidey
Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed. -- Zubin Mehta
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society. -- John Maynard Keynes
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home. -- Frederick Sanger
I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election. -- Edward Heath
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. -- Penelope Lively
I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts. -- Benito Mussolini
When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense. -- Shimon Peres
As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career. -- Cobi Jones
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else? -- Eric Davis
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. -- Malcolm Turnbull
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. -- John Cornyn
In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In Laymon's Terms,' which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year. -- Brian Keene
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed. -- Samuel Johnson
Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates. -- Moshe Safdie
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success. -- Carl von Clausewitz
My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth. -- Dwyane Wade
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places. -- Robert A. Dahl
We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change. -- Hillary Clinton

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