Paul Wellstone Quotes

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Paul Wellstone

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• I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Inspiration
  • Summon

• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Have
  • Dresses
  • Many

• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attention
  • Yourself
  • Turn

• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• I've talked to several who have been approached for short- or long-term duty in the Trump administration. The evidence of the work environment that mounts with each passing day makes them highly wary.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • Long
  • Environment

• I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.

  

  Mark O'Donnell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Hope

• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, 'Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?'

  

  Plutarch
  • People
  • Friend
  • Opinion

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Imagination

• I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Country
  • Real
  • Family

• The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • Country
  • Money