Jacob Lew Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
-
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
-
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
-
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
-
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
-
The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
-
I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
-
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
-
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
-
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
-
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
-
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
-
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
-
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
-
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
-
I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.
-
This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.
-
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
-
I try to live intentionally, and the things that move me, I'm going to throw myself at them. I want to see what my potential is. I'm always curious to see what the edge is.
-
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
-
I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing, because you're incorporating all these new things.
-
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
-
If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.
-
If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
