Paul Wellstone Quotes

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Paul Wellstone

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Company
  • Intellectual

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Best
  • Learn
  • Humor

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Comedy

• If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Man

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • True
  • Political
  • Law

• It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Political
  • Perfect