Phil Gramm Quotes

Misery sells newspapers.

Phil Gramm

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• A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Find
  • Lot

• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Children
  • Black
  • Past

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Bus
  • Foreman
  • Grill

• It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Attention
  • Difficult
  • More

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Myself
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Writing
  • Patience
  • Boring

• I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • motivation

• With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Night
  • Die
  • Day

• I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • House
  • Always
  • See

• I do not care if the guy is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a zebra. I'm the manager of this team, and I say he plays. What's more, I say he can make us all rich. And if any of you cannot use the money, I will see that you are all traded.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Black

• it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enough
  • inspirational
  • Speak

• I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Sorrow

• I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Believe

• But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

  

  Link Wray
  • Music
  • Believe

• Misery sells newspapers.

  

  Phil Gramm