Bob Packwood Quotes

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

Bob Packwood

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• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • House

• Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Sea
  • Mountain
  • Grandparents

• I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Lonely

• I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Trying
  • Passion

• The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Important
  • Together
  • Want

• I've been to Chennai several times for modelling shows and shooting ad films. It's a great place to come back to because the people are warm and welcoming. I've never had the opportunity to actually see the city, but whatever places I've been to have really caught my attention.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Up
  • Science
  • Wise

• The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Global

• I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Slavery

• The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Red

• I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death
  • Sacrifice

• Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Bad
  • True

• There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Heart
  • Power

• Everyone had something unique to offer in life and their responsibility was to develop those gifts - and heroes come from all backgrounds.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Mother
  • Thoughts

• When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Time
  • Live
  • Effort

• Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Why

• The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decision

• My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Service

• If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Sick
  • Ridiculous
  • Agents

• I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Certain
  • Advantage
  • Accounts

• Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

  

  Bob Packwood