Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

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• We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • People
  • Day
  • Band

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Done
  • Political
  • Pleasure

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Movies

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• Amateurs hope, professionals work.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Professionals

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lazy

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Hand
  • Morning
  • Bread

• Ahora tenemos un peronismo que es todo: es la extrema derecha, es el centro, es el centro izquierda, es la extrema izquierda, es la democracia y es el terrorismo, es la demagogia y es la insensatez... Todo es el peronismo...

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa

• I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Moving

• An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Society