Christine Gregoire Quotes
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
-
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
-
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
-
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
-
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
-
Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
-
I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
-
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
-
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
-
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
-
I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
-
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'
-
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
-
I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.
-
I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
-
I'm a good eater and like to make my own meals. I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
-
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
-
White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.
-
In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.
-
I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
-
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
-
Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.
-
It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.
-
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
