Blake Farenthold Quotes

We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.

Blake Farenthold

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• We will not lose this election for lack of money.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Lose
  • Election

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Twilight

• We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Independent
  • Over
  • Far

• If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Islamic
  • Terrorism

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Practice
  • Values

• We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Car
  • Racing

• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Been
  • Personally

• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Food
  • New
  • Equality

• When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Family
  • Comedy

• We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Game
  • Reality
  • Forever

• I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dad

• Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Up
  • American
  • Police

• I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Period

• I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Pretty
  • Dope

• We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Police