Kurt Bills Quotes

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

Kurt Bills

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
  • Political

• Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Him

• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Independent

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Long
  • Political
  • Science

• My parents were very artistic, but busy.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Busy

• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Jesus
  • Off
  • Statue

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

• Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

  

  Edward Brooke
  • Time
  • Party
  • Tea

• I like the direct contact. I want a lot of people that only know me through the mass media to learn more about what I'm doing, and to know that I'm an independent filmmaker and I'm not part of the Hollywood system. I'm coming from where they started. I'm not coming from a family with a lot of money.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Country
  • House
  • Party

• When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Cookbook

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

  

  Kurt Bills
  • Parents
  • Political
  • Party