Keith Ellison Quotes
When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
-
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
-
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
-
I can stay up watching TV so late.
-
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
-
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
-
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
-
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
-
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
-
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
-
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
-
Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
-
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
-
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
-
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
-
People want you to fail.
-
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
-
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot.
-
People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
-
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
-
I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.
-
When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
