Jay Weatherill Quotes

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

Jay Weatherill

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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kings

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Influence

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Women
  • Future

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
  • Privacy
  • I Wish

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Important
  • Know
  • Thought

• I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
  • Reminds
  • Workaholic

• There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Want
  • Stars
  • Type

• Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Two
  • Bugs
  • Thirds

• Russia's economy is both cursed and blessed by oil. When the oil price goes up, there is a tremendous 'wealth effect' spilling over into all corners of the economy, but this diminishes the drive to develop other industries to diversify away from overreliance on oil.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Up
  • Blessed

• You're going to fall, but you got to stand.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Fall
  • MMA

• There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Funny

• A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

  

  Jay Weatherill
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Quality