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  • We are not makers of history. We are made by history. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. -- Herbert Kaufman
  • One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. -- Lawrence Welk
  • There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making. -- Fred Wilson
  • Baseball is a man maker. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
  • I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. -- Cofer Black
  • A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. -- W. H. Auden
  • Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers. -- Carol Bellamy
  • Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. -- Iris Murdoch
  • In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. -- Woody Allen
  • From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. -- Tecumseh
  • The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day. -- Utada Hikaru
  • The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. -- Theophile Gautier
  • I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. -- Mira Nair
  • Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. -- Karl Popper
  • Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? -- Algernon Sidney
  • You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. -- Herb Brooks
  • For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. -- Franklin Knight Lane
  • Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. -- Chris Chocola
  • A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. -- Robert Menzies
  • If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. -- Maria Montessori
  • I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -- Winston Churchill
  • Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- William Ralph Inge
  • Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. -- Mikhail Bakunin
  • Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. -- Barney Frank
  • Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle. -- Martin Scorsese
  • Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them. -- Virginia Postrel
  • If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it. -- Denzel Washington
  • A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. -- G. H. Hardy
  • They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas. -- Mira Nair
  • When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. -- George Lucas
  • You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. -- Voltaire
  • Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up! -- Rachael Ray
  • Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than make matters worse? Yes. -- Janet Yellen
  • In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs. -- Geoff Mulgan
  • It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. -- John Yoo
  • Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers. -- Cesar Chavez
  • I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder. -- Alber Elbaz
  • Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. -- Dixie Lee Ray
  • If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. -- Wole Soyinka
  • Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson. -- Bob Proctor
  • We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. -- Thor Heyerdahl
  • You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket. -- Adam Rapp
  • If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present. -- Stewart Udall
  • At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did. -- Charlize Theron
  • By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point. -- Vint Cerf
  • Tears are great peace-makers. -- Mason Cooley
  • Sociological critics are waste makers. -- Andy Warhol
  • Don't over-react to the trouble makers. -- Warren G. Bennis
  • Movie makers now choose profit over vision. -- Shirley MacLaine
  • We the people are the change makers. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • The film makers are the true movie stars. -- Logan Lerman
  • History makers recognize the shift in times and seasons. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish. -- Philip Guston
  • Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine. -- Frank Herbert
  • The child's parents are not his makers but his guardians. -- Maria Montessori
  • The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers. -- Roland Barthes
  • I think that music makers just really bless the planet. -- Charles Lloyd
  • History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. -- Steven Spielberg
  • African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. -- Wole Soyinka
  • All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers".. -- Steve Jobs
  • Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers. -- Martha Stewart
  • The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging. -- Martin Winterkorn
  • No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. -- V. S. Pritchett
  • Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value. -- Plato
  • The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data! -- George Raveling
  • My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! -- Frank Capra
  • Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it. -- Jack Valenti
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  • Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated. -- Gideon Raff
  • People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. -- Napoleon Hill
  • The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. -- Elia Kazan
  • Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. -- Mona Charen
  • Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers. -- Bill Jensen
  • Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers. -- James Hansen
  • The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers. -- Juliette Gordon Low
  • The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers -- David Platt
  • The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? -- Susanna Kaysen
  • So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime. -- Peter Jackson
  • It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied. -- Henry Abbey
  • Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science. -- Virginia Postrel
  • Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. -- Anthony Minghella
  • The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. -- Ray Milland
  • World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?' -- Zadie Smith
  • Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them. -- Ian Somerhalder
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  • It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers. -- Marjorie Hillis
  • Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem. -- Eric Maskin
  • Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved. -- Brian Tracy
  • No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers. -- Keith Preston
  • True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers. -- Lewis Hyde
  • As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky -- Carl Sagan
  • You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers. -- Sam Altman
  • From the makers of Alien vs. Predator: Alien vs. Pingu. K9 - stop humping the toaster! -- Russell Howard
  • There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong. -- Duncan Green
  • Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems. -- Duncan Green
  • The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities. -- George P. Bush
  • The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. -- David Brooks
  • As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection. -- Roy Barnes
  • You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. -- Franklin Knight Lane
  • I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, -- PJ Harvey
  • As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
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