Charles H. Percy Quotes
I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
-
I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
-
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
-
The stratosphere is a hostile place.
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
-
I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
-
No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
-
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
-
The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
-
My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
-
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
-
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
-
I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
-
I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
-
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
-
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
-
I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
-
I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.
-
I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.
-
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
-
There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don't think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.
-
You get so brainwashed. You're on the road 300 days a year, and that's why guys get so messed up. This life becomes a part of them. It's not real, but some guys who are still in the business think it is.
-
I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.
