Mark Pocan Quotes

A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.

Mark Pocan

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• In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

  

  Orson Welles
  • America
  • Man
  • Bond

• I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Good
  • Stress
  • Racing

• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Language
  • Body
  • Skills

• If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Art

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Work
  • Money
  • Kids

• When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • School
  • Character
  • Law

• I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Understand

• I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Good
  • Law
  • Christian

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Should
  • Simplicity

• I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Aillas groaned. 'Destiny could never be so unkind.'Suldrun said in a soft voice: 'Destiny doesn’t really care.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Destiny

• It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Music
  • Period
  • Door

• In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Order

• If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Loved

• I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Live
  • Song

• A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.

  

  Mark Pocan