David Axelrod Quotes

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Imagination
  • Living
  • Yes

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Future
  • Architecture

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • Great
  • Literature

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • You
  • Presence

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Spring
  • Back
  • Intelligence

• I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Dream

• Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Action

• Whether I'm performing or directing, I'm aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it's nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it's intentionally breaking the rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Funny

• He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • May
  • Past

• Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Teacher

• We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

  

  David Axelrod
  • God
  • Hand
  • Flying