Dave Mason Quotes
Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
-
I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
-
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
-
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
-
All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
-
When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
-
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
-
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
-
Everything and anything is valuable.
-
The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
-
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
-
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
-
I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
-
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
-
The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
-
When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
-
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
-
The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
-
They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do.
-
I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.
-
A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.
-
I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
-
There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
-
Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.
