Matt Salmon Quotes

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

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• One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Sister
  • Avoid
  • Youngest

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Place
  • Biology

• Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Find

• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Work
  • Business

• I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Positive

• I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Car
  • Years
  • Old

• Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Something
  • Global Warming

• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • America
  • Political
  • Fate

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Hurt
  • Girls
  • Kissing

• I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • You
  • Always

• I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beautiful
  • Hotel
  • Counts

• Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • American
  • Ideas

• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Free
  • Science
  • Freedom

• Clement Greenberg talked about the ideas or possibilities of painting in his - I think -, 'After Abstract Expressionism' article, and he allows a blank canvas to be an idea for a painting. It might not be a

  

  Frank Stella
  • Painting
  • Canvas

• I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • People
  • Kitchen

• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • Air
  • Adventure
  • Endurance

• Tim Tebow is a great guy, but he wasn't a good teammate.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Teammate

• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

  

  Matt Salmon