Jacob Lew Quotes

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

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• I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Comedy
  • Stories
  • Fearless

• There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • She
  • Character
  • Language

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Sister

• I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Value
  • Hands

• Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Chemistry

• I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • World
  • Fool

• It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • World
  • Long
  • Father

• I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Believe
  • America
  • Hope

• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

  

  William Goldman
  • Life
  • Pain

• Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.

  

  Joe Lhota
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • Party
  • Responsibility