Marsha Blackburn Quotes

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Movies
  • Looking
  • Editing

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Way
  • Words
  • Favorite

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Church
  • I Was Raised

• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thought
  • Library
  • Might

• My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • World
  • Great
  • Survival

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Wise

• You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

  

  Larry Wall

• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Work
  • Food
  • Water

• Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Life
  • Optimistic
  • Frustration

• If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division

• I love film. I love going to see films; I always have. I've done quite a few.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Done

• When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Angry

• Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Country

• I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Think
  • Game

• Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Age

• I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

  

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Everybody

• We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

  

  Marsha Blackburn