James K. Polk Quotes

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

James K. Polk

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Better

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • Relationship

• Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Deep
  • Competition
  • Mistakes

• I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Women
  • Feel

• When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Home
  • Girl

• In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Long
  • Song

• 'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Society
  • End

• No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Future
  • Stop
  • Technology

• There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Me
  • Supported

• I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Country
  • Politics
  • Media

• If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Business

• Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Time

• Peace is an idea born from hope and the desire to see your children raise a family, walk in a market, and engage in simple pleasures of everyday life without fear.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

  

  Jemima Khan
  • Attention
  • Criticism

• It's one of my favourite types of comedy, just the awkward moments on camera. For many people, it's unbearable to watch, but I love seeing it when it's done right.

  

  Jason Jones
  • People
  • Done
  • Comedy

• I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

  

  Bernard Hill
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

  

  James K. Polk