James Carville Quotes

Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

James Carville

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• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Class
  • Most
  • Marine

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Bring

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Like
  • Bread
  • Turkey

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Vision

• I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Friends
  • Loner

• I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Work
  • Art

• From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

  

  August Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Science
  • Maturity

• Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Community

• Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

  

  James Carville
  • American