Keith Ellison Quotes

We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.

Keith Ellison

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• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Experience
  • War
  • Wife

• I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Influence
  • Writer
  • Dangerous

• The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Me
  • Cry
  • Getting

• So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Light
  • Habit

• There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Important
  • Veteran

• A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Important
  • Success
  • Leadership

• As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Why
  • War
  • Nature

• I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Pretty
  • Veteran

• A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Time
  • Live
  • Earth

• As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly to see the heartfelt commitment of the fan. Regardless of years of disappointing and winless seasons, the true fans remained die-hard in their loyalty to 'the Team.'

  

  Burgess Owens
  • True
  • Team
  • Die

• I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • America
  • Realist

• I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Life
  • Important
  • Military

• At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them. In particular, George Popjak and I shared an interest in cholesterol.

  

  John Cornforth

• If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

  

  Alma Guillermoprieto
  • Die

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

  

  Austin Peck
  • Real
  • Words
  • Reading

• The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

  

  Paul Virilio
  • World
  • Light

• I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • King

• We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Veteran