Chris Hughes Quotes

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Support
  • Myself

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Heart
  • English
  • Speak

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Book
  • Period
  • Write

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Two

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
  • Forget
  • Start

• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

  

  John le Carre

• There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Time
  • Long

• We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room. We're talking about high technology across the board, whether it's computer chips or cars or anything in between.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • High
  • Technology
  • Style

• The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Time
  • Power
  • War

• I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Friends
  • Movies
  • Acquaintances

• I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

  

  Chris Hughes
  • Technology