Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hard Work

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Want
  • Career

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Enthusiastic

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Character
  • War
  • Peace

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Goal
  • Values

• A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Mind
  • Mouth
  • Flow

• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • American
  • Style
  • Rock

• If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Power
  • Jesus

• Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • World

• “Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • Truth
  • Scientist
  • Studies

• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn
  • Time
  • Money
  • Period

• The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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