Paul Tonko Quotes

We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Great
  • Home
  • Responsibility

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Police
  • Video
  • Surveillance

• I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• The first sentence of a book is a promise.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Book
  • Promise
  • First

• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

  

  Jack Black
  • Great
  • Face
  • Now

• I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Fanatic
  • Star Trek

• Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Man

• Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Reality
  • inspirational

• There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Thankful

• If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Fight
  • Ego
  • Losing

• Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • Up
  • Song

• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • God
  • Father
  • Exalted

• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Song
  • Bird
  • Natural

• Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
  • Wife

• We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.

  

  Paul Tonko