Jay Rockefeller Quotes

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.

Jay Rockefeller

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• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Gay
  • Baby

• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Gaming

• When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Up
  • Internet
  • Coffee

• I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Remember
  • Night

• Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Money
  • Black

• The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Limits

• I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Learn

• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Age
  • Normal
  • Hot

• People do not go into the company of their fellow-creatures for what would seem a very sufficient reason, namely, that they have something to say to them, or something that they want to hear from them; but in the vague hope that they may find something to say.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • May
  • Hope

• I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God

• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Language
  • Common

• I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God
  • Universe

• As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • House
  • Reality
  • Hurt

• When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Cold

• I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Time
  • History
  • Present

• I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Hair

• When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Priority

• 'Compromise is necessary,' Max agreed, 'so long as you never give up who you are. That isn’t compromise; that’s spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.'

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Up
  • Long
  • True

• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Children
  • May
  • Together

• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.

  

  Jay Rockefeller