Martin Bashir Quotes

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Martin Bashir

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• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • Political
  • Being

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Job
  • Like
  • Fortunate

• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Good
  • Mind
  • School

• I'm a work in progress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Progress

• We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Nothing
  • Racism
  • Own

• My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • World
  • Me
  • Thing

• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Plant

• The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Simple

• I asked you to conquer your fear, but all you did was give in to it. If you were in love with her, that would be one thing. Love is something to be afraid of, but this, this is embarrassing. So she talks too much, so she's too enthused about every little thing, so what? Get in, get your question answered, and get out. Stand up to her, for cryin' out loud!'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • She
  • Fear

• The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Quasi ascosi avea gli occhi ne la testa,La faccia macra, e come un osso asciutta,La chioma rabuffata, orrida e mesta,La barba folta, spaventosa e brutta.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life

• I was 15 when I started making music properly.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music

• You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Football
  • Thanksgiving

• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Help
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Time
  • Science
  • Lost

• My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

  

  Martin Bashir