Charlie Crist Quotes

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Idealist

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Present

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Chance

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• It's all about sound. It's that simple.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • About

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Crazy
  • Sad
  • Angry

• Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

  

  Colleen Hanabusa
  • She
  • American
  • House

• Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Blue

• There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

  

  James Mattis
  • Stop

• Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Real
  • Health

• Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

  

  Charlie Crist
  • Party
  • Inspired