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
  • Brain
  • Imagination
  • Perception

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

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Face
  • Deal
  • Many

• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Truth
  • War
  • Age

• I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape - I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop - I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.

  

  James Comey

• I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • Mistake
  • Security
  • Imbalance

• Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Reading

• I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.

  

  R. J. Anderson
  • Universe
  • Purpose
  • Ideas

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

  

  Brian Schatz