Marsha Blackburn Quotes

We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
  • Color
  • Wall
  • Red

• The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Brain
  • Politics

• The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Gun
  • Use

• Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Work
  • Thinking

• We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Country