Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Service

• I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

  

  Randy Weber
  • You
  • Name
  • Math

• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Career
  • Never

• You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Know

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Long
  • Small
  • Day

• I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Music
  • Gentle
  • Gorgeous

• Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Cancer
  • Show
  • Bigger

• A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Good
  • Together
  • Team

• Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Friends
  • Tree

• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Dark

• O early one morning I walked out like Agag,Early one morning to walk through the fireDodging the pythons that leaked on the pavementsWith tinkle of glasses and tangle of wire.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Morning

• What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Space

• It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

  

  Plato
  • Light
  • Wish

• What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Family
  • True

• Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

  

  Elisabeth Marbury
  • My Life
  • Blessings
  • Developed

• As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Nature

• If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan