Brian Schatz Quotes

One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

Brian Schatz

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• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Time
  • Government
  • Three

• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Community
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Night
  • Change

• One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Friends
  • History
  • Problems

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Journey

• I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Hate
  • Term
  • Philanthropist

• I've always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Singer

• If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Hope
  • Cooking
  • Restaurant

• I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Me
  • Learn

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Face
  • Deal
  • Many

• I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Funny
  • Eyes
  • Animal

• People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Work
  • Painting

• Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

  

  John Boehner
  • American
  • Support
  • Goals

• Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

  

  Denis Norden
  • Good
  • Work

• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Press
  • Be Yourself
  • Love Someone

• One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

  

  Brian Schatz