Marty Meehan Quotes

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Marty Meehan

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Read
  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Army

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Work
  • Successful
  • Village

• Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Enough
  • Need
  • Limits

• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Something
  • Only
  • Originality

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Female
  • Manipulate

• I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Passion
  • Equality

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Death
  • Song
  • Growing

• If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.

  

  Corbin Bleu Reivers
  • Bad
  • Mood

• We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.

  

  Burnie Burns

• In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

  

  James Wolk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Guy

• I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden

• Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.

  

  Chris Squire Yes

• When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.

  

  John Mulaney
  • People

• I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks
  • Great

• It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Player
  • Field
  • Stands

• Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

  

  Marty Meehan