David Satcher Quotes

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

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• I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Blessed

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • She
  • Character
  • History

• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

  

  Ice T
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Tough

• Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Little
  • Absurd

• I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Family
  • Giving

• Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Black
  • Freedom

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Food
  • Choice

• Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Real
  • Sex

• They sniffed, poor things, for their green fields,They cried so loud I could not sleep:For fifty thousand shillings downI would not sail again with sheep.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Green

• If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Memories

• What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Daily
  • Ambition

• A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Different
  • Real
  • May

• I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn't combed your hair, older black ladies - complete strangers - would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • School
  • Black

• I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott

• I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

  

  Mike Lowry
  • People
  • Feels
  • Limits

• When I'm dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there's risks that you don't. And I think I'm interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Music
  • Risk

• Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

  

  David Satcher