Doc Hastings Quotes

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Inspired
  • Designer
  • Vintage

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Shine
  • Season

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Always
  • Student
  • Ordinary

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Decision
  • Mum
  • Accent

• I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Success
  • Never
  • New York

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Father
  • Growth
  • Son

• No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Long
  • Rebel

• When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Honor

• The New York Times is busy sucking the teat of the major studios. They twist themselves into a pretzel when Kumar and Schmumar Go to White Castle Part III. They say, 'Oh, the farts are such a statement about American culture! It's such great satire!' It's bullshit. Troma paved the road for farts! But we don't exist.

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • Great
  • American
  • Culture

• I've got a lot of businesses that I've invested in and I am really enjoying it.

  

  Arlene Dickinson
  • Businesses
  • Enjoying
  • Invested

• No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • World
  • Dying

• The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Children
  • Help
  • Health

• The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

  

  Ernst Moritz Arndt
  • Blood
  • Land
  • Brave Man

• The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

  

  Doc Hastings