Paul Tsongas Quotes

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Paul Tsongas

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Business
  • Think
  • Know

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Never
  • Motherhood
  • Knew

• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Bad
  • Stronger
  • Seasons

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Story
  • News
  • Cheers

• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • People
  • Experience
  • You

• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Life
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Color

• I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Respect
  • Fashion
  • Green

• I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

  

  George Washington
  • Purpose
  • Revolution
  • Destiny

• There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

  

  William Henry Drummond
  • Love
  • Greatness
  • Unselfish

• I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

  

  Javan
  • Wish

• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  

  Kurt Huber
  • High
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Remember
  • Speak
  • Forget

• Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Destiny
  • Greatness