Charlie Sykes Quotes

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

Charlie Sykes

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• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • True
  • Control
  • Organization

• To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Power
  • Running

• Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Math
  • Walk

• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • School
  • High

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Education
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Growing
  • Water
  • Sun

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Progress
  • Path
  • Walking

• I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Football
  • Anything

• I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Real
  • You

• Imagine a universe made up not of things in space and in time, but of patterned flows extending throughout its reaches. What flows is a mysterious, nonindividualized something we call energy. It flows along pathways structured by the metric of integral space-time. It flows smoothly, without crinks or wrinkles, over vast stretches of this cosmic matrix, and it becomes contorted in some regions.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Universe
  • Imagine
  • Matrix

• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin

• I'll turn over a new leaf.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Turn
  • Leaf

• I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

  

  Charlie Sykes