Keith Ellison Quotes

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

Keith Ellison

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• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Aging

• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Movie
  • You
  • Look

• I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Chinese

• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Bad
  • Community

• As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Team

• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • School
  • Choice
  • Civil Rights

• I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • World
  • Truth
  • Search

• I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Future
  • Look
  • Mistakes

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• 'By god', says he, 'I think the Devil shits Dutchmen'

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • God
  • Devil

• Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Cold

• The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • World
  • May
  • Law

• I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.

  

  Charlie Weis
  • Home
  • Team
  • Goal

• I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Tennis

• I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.

  

  David Grann
  • Sports

• All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Afraid

• The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

  

  Keith Ellison