Bethany McLean Quotes

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Truth
  • Power
  • Science

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Really

• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Grace
  • Humility

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Understand

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Goal
  • Values

• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Want
  • Morning
  • Him

• The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Team
  • Best
  • Step

• Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Men
  • Money
  • Know

• We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Live
  • Purpose
  • Greatness

• I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Optimistic

• No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

  

  Bethany McLean
  • Live
  • City
  • Chicago