Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Everything
  • Create

• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Maybe

• I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Leader
  • Role
  • Prison

• A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Hope
  • Change
  • How Far

• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
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  • Favorite

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Sun
  • Walk

• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
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• In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Peace
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• The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
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