Blake Farenthold Quotes

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

Blake Farenthold

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Help
  • Gay

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Cool

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Popular
  • Said

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Love
  • Green

• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Mysteries
  • Obsess

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • People
  • Love
  • Today

• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Different
  • Baseball

• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. … We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Funny
  • Wish

• Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Excellence
  • Often

• Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • People
  • American
  • Bad