James A. Leach Quotes

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

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• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • End
  • Win

• The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Power
  • Smart
  • Influence

• Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Liberty
  • Step
  • Tyranny

• Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • House

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Learning
  • Whole
  • Aggressive

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• Compton is my city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • City

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • Money
  • Need

• It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Funny
  • New York

• Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Respect

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Trying
  • Teacher
  • Needs

• There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Optimism
  • Case
  • Pessimism