Jason Kander Quotes

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Power
  • Friends

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• Fage does not make great yogurt.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Great
  • Does
  • Yogurt

• I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Never
  • Determination

• I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Suicide

• But I want to do good work, after this series.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• I love horror movies.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Horror

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

  

  Paige Davis
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Right
  • Situation
  • Now

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Up
  • Great
  • Children

• On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • Think
  • Way

• My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Wish
  • Day

• I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • Work
  • History

• The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

  

  David Frum
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Pleasure

• Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

  

  Sharon Creech
  • Life
  • Read
  • Listen

• Mensuraque jurisvis erat.

  

  Lucan

• Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

  

  Jason Kander