Jason Kander Quotes

If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.

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• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Deserve
  • Citizens

• Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Light
  • Effort

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Development

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Blue

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Right

• 'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'

  

  Alfred Bester
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Promise

• Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les nôtres,Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

  

  Benedetta Tagliabue
  • Believe

• If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Believe