Dennis Hastert Quotes

Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war.

Dennis Hastert

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• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • May
  • Door

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Family
  • Trust

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Identity
  • See

• Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Ideas
  • Down
  • Borrowing

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • School
  • Africa
  • Secondary

• In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Order
  • Answers
  • Questions

• For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

  

  John Buchanan Robinson
  • Alone
  • Universe

• The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • World
  • Children
  • Pretty

• Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Achieve
  • Results
  • Maximum

• Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Choices
  • Spirit

• War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • War
  • Problems
  • Human Rights

• Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • War
  • Uncle
  • Cousin