James Carville Quotes

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

James Carville

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• Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Math
  • Walk

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Learning
  • Road

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Failure
  • Most

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Like
  • Movies

• I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Everything

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• Word of mouth is everything.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Everything
  • Word
  • Mouth

• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fear
  • Perfect
  • Courage

• The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • American
  • War
  • You

• Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Today
  • Blow

• Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυςἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.

  

  Aeschylus

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

  

  John Calvin
  • Good
  • God
  • Painting

• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  

  Walter Block
  • Political
  • Unique
  • Philosophy

• When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Why
  • America

• Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Life
  • Best
  • Bendy

• If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

  

  James Carville