Mark Begich Quotes

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Job
  • Law

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Man
  • Black

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • American
  • America
  • Canada

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• 'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Poverty

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

  

  Jakob Bohme
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  • God
  • Men

• I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

  

  Lee Daniels

• Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • World
  • Democracy

• Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

  

  Mark Begich
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