Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

Stewart Udall

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• As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Girl

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Authenticity

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Different
  • Paint

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Like
  • Blue

• I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • Good
  • Like
  • Wall

• Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Age
  • Difference
  • Brand

• A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • May
  • Nature
  • Free

• What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Different
  • Science
  • Dad

• I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Christmas

• I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • Support
  • Sex

• I didn't like law. Every client had a problem, and I didn't want to listen to people's problems; I had enough of my own.

  

  David Tang
  • People
  • Law

• And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

  

  Will Smith
  • Work
  • Guy

• You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Work
  • Real
  • Money

• It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

  

  Jamie Cullum

• As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People

• I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Life
  • Great

• Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

  

  Alexander Cannon
  • Trauma
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Past Life

• When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

  

  Coco Martin

• It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Important
  • High

• The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

  

  William Odom
  • President

• Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Environment
  • President