Bill Haslam Quotes

If we abandon our values by completely shutting our doors to those who seek the freedom we enjoy or mistreating our neighbors who made it here after enduring unimaginable hardships, the terrorists win.

Bill Haslam

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Me
  • Feel

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• The enormous responsibility and protectiveness a man has to feel towards his family when they are threatened was a revelation to me. I have now experienced manhood.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I've never missed a vote. The veterans' committee keeps track of hearings, and I've never missed a hearing or a vote on the VA committee.

  

  Mike Coffman
  • Hearing
  • Missed
  • Veterans

• Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Freedom
  • Problems
  • Affection

• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Progress

• When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Disease

• If we abandon our values by completely shutting our doors to those who seek the freedom we enjoy or mistreating our neighbors who made it here after enduring unimaginable hardships, the terrorists win.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Freedom