Bob Simon Quotes

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

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• When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Up
  • Country
  • Down

• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
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• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Country
  • Resources

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Try
  • Modest
  • Frivolous

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Best
  • Sports

• There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
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  • Country
  • Name

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • Power
  • Control

• One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Country
  • Election
  • Israel

• I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Country
  • Travel

• What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• I think that people are innately good.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • People
  • Good

• Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Heart
  • America
  • Soul

• It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Different
  • Single
  • Present

• I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Myself
  • Attracted
  • Pope John Paul II

• Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Reality
  • Stock

• Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

  

  Bob Simon
  • Country
  • Control