Aaron Lewis Quotes

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

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• Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peaceful
  • Bullets
  • Ballots

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Food
  • Generosity

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Equal

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Real
  • Party
  • Clothes

• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Why
  • Government

• In addition to the problem of public confidence, hiring a relative also causes problems within the government organization. It can undermine the morale of government officials. It can cause confusion about what the lines of authority are; in other words, the relative may have a particular title, but many may perceive the relative's role as even more important than the title would suggest. It may be very difficult to say no to the president's son-in-law.

  

  Kathleen Clark
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Government

• The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

  

  Hugo Black
  • People
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Government
  • Failing
  • Schools

• Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Together
  • Words
  • Wonder

• I've never needed government to hold my hand.

  

  Aaron Lewis Staind
  • Government