James Carville Quotes

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

James Carville

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Trust

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Reality

• Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Crime
  • Obviously
  • Pays

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Spiritual
  • Poetry
  • Medicine

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Loved
  • Classmates

• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Question

• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• As I say, if we bring up religion we’ll have differences; we’ll have arguments; and we’ll never be able to get together.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Together

• Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Spring

• After independence most governments were formed by Cong. And the few times BJP came to power, it was a coalition. But this is the first time that we have won purely on our own-with a national agenda based on governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Power

• During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • School
  • Age
  • Parents

• Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

  

  Augustus

• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Long
  • Door

• I had no fashion sense when I started out.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Fashion

• Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

  

  James L. Buckley

• Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Feelings

• We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

  

  James Carville