Jason Chaffetz Quotes

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I know all the critics.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Know
  • Critics

• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Rock
  • Just
  • Expect

• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Painting

• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• I dress for men.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Men
  • Dress

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Cynicism

• In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Time
  • Country
  • Real

• Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Children
  • Kids

• Have common sense and stick to the point.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Sense
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Together
  • Day
  • Band

• I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Always
  • Never
  • Model

• I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Years

• I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fashion

• I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Play
  • Morning

• I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Want
  • Band

• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Alone

• The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Character
  • Man
  • City

• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny
  • Aristocracy

• Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Christ
  • East
  • Grandeur

• Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread;The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners are not said.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Alone
  • Thoughts

• When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

  

  Jason Chaffetz