Bill Kristol Quotes

Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

Bill Kristol

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• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Internet
  • Passwords

• It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Done
  • Father

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Walk

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Strength

• At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • American
  • Age
  • Theatre

• I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Inspired
  • Stuff
  • Because

• Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • History
  • Irish

• I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Work
  • School
  • Done

• I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Play
  • Listen

• I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Think
  • Grace

• Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Truth
  • Soul

• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

  

  Augustus
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

  

  Conrad Black

• It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • People
  • Nature

• Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Real
  • Done
  • War

• I just want to go out on a high note, go out on top, and lead my team.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • High
  • Team

• I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.'

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Training
  • Military
  • Leadership

• Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

  

  George Crumb
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Spiritual

• That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Up
  • Time
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• Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

  

  Bill Kristol