Chuck Grassley Quotes

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Chuck Grassley

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• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Important
  • Career
  • Fans

• I'm a real romantic.

  

  Vanity
  • Real
  • Romantic

• I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movies
  • Release

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Up
  • Compassion

• Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • People
  • Period
  • Marketing

• We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

  

  Janine Shepherd
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • War
  • Law

• Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

  

  James Wyatt
  • Great
  • Lost

• As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it was possible.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • America

• I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Passion

• I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.

  

  David Ige
  • Future

• Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Perception

• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Character
  • Book

• Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

  

  Joko Beck
  • She

• During the day, I'm constantly reapplying hand cream. My grandma used to do it all the time, so maybe I got it from her.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Grandma

• Capitalism is the greatest benefactor man has ever had. It is time for the thinking men and women of every nation to recognize that fact and to fully embrace the system of the mind and of individual rights. Men and women of all countries unite - in your support of capitalism. You have a world of joyous achievement to win.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Grandma