Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Culture
  • Need
  • Therapy

• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Father
  • Also
  • Screenwriter

• Social peace requires reciprocity.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Peace
  • Social
  • Requires

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Man

• Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.

  

  Chris March
  • Up
  • World
  • Halloween

• 'Who are you?' the minstrel asked. 'I am the Golux,' said the Golux, proudly, 'the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device.'

  

  James Thurber
  • World

• The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

  

  Jose Andres
  • World
  • Poverty

• To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Choose

• I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World