Christine Todd Whitman Quotes
Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.
Quotes to Explore
-
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
-
The student will try to defy the master. Always.
-
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
-
I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
-
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
-
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
-
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
-
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
-
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
-
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
-
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
-
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
-
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
-
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
-
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
-
Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
-
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
-
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
-
Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.
-
World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
-
I am a strong woman. I come from a background as a prosecutor.
-
Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.
