Brian Schatz Quotes
No one can fill Senator Daniel K. Inouye's shoes - but together, all of us, we can try to walk in his footsteps.
Quotes to Explore
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
-
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
-
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
-
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
-
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
-
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
-
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
-
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
-
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
-
When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
-
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
-
The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
-
When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
-
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
-
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
-
I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
-
In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
-
Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
-
Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.
-
I love the sun; I would have trouble living in Canada.
-
All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.
-
No one can fill Senator Daniel K. Inouye's shoes - but together, all of us, we can try to walk in his footsteps.
