David Axelrod Quotes

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

David Axelrod

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• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Now
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• I carry a lot of muscle easily.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Lot
  • Carry
  • Muscle

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Think

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Doing

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • You
  • Like
  • Patience

• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • Gift

• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Working

• One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I think it's really cool. Also, in my music, I'm not afraid to say what I want to say. I also think it's relatable for other girls out there.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Single

• It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • True
  • Government
  • Arts

• One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Love
  • House

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In a perfect world an idea could be born, nourished, developed and made known to everyone, criticized and perfected, and put to good use without the crude fact of financial support ever entering in to the process. Seldom, if ever, in the practical world in which we live does this occur.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Dog

• I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Interesting
  • Flaws

• No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Helping
  • Police
  • Heroic

• The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed

• The FM channels are as popular as TV. People are hooked to the radio all day. So, when the same medium strongly publicises the piece, people are bound to keep listening to it.

  

  Arin Paul
  • Listening
  • Popular
  • FM Channels

• Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Security
  • Changed
  • Concerned

• I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

  

  David Axelrod