Jacob Lew Quotes

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

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• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Proud

• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Done
  • Proud

• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Culture
  • German

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Time

• I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • True

• We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • History
  • Period
  • Stupid

• The rabbits bow before thee, And cower in the straw; The chickens are submissive, And own thy will for law; Bullfinches and canary Thy bidding do obey; And e'en the tortoise in its shell Doth never say thee nay.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Law

• Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• The whole point of remaining on cable is to remain true to who I am. That's a bad, bad girl that got a big job.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Job
  • Bad
  • True

• You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Mother

• The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Rebel

• If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Say
  • Prince

• I remember I was at a press conference where somebody came up to me with absolute confidence, like he knew me forever, and whispered in my ear, 'You should sing a song now. The Indian audience will enjoy it. Your songs will improve India and Pakistan's relations.' I clarified to him that I wasn't Ali Zafar.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Song

• Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Political

• Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

  

  Jacob Lew