Pierre Salinger Quotes

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Pierre Salinger

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• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Life
  • Work
  • Political

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Comedy
  • Before
  • Material

• It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Trying
  • You
  • Burden

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Country
  • California

• No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Bad
  • You
  • Look

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Mistake
  • Spokesman
  • Crackpot

• God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Service
  • Voice

• My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mother
  • Read
  • Cards

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Business
  • Future
  • Profound

• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • Great
  • Queen

• If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Better
  • Work Hard

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Control

• Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Children
  • Empowering

• I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Vision
  • Reputation
  • Opinions

• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

  

  Gerry Spence
  • Simple
  • Winning
  • Human

• The things that stand out are often the oddities.

  

  Pierre Salinger