Douglas Wilder Quotes
My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.
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'What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?'
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My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
