Matthew Lesko Quotes

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

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• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • You
  • Feeling

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Leave
  • Here
  • Predict

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Down

• When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Band
  • Difficult

• I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed me beef-barley soup and peanut butter sandwiches. That's about it for childhood food memories.

  

  Lindsay Wagner
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Childhood

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Different
  • College
  • English

• I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Bad
  • Rap
  • Appreciation