Brian Schweitzer Quotes

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

Brian Schweitzer

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• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Gold

• I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Theory
  • Worth

• Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Powerful

• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Choose

• The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Relationship
  • Always
  • France

• All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Movie
  • Me

• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Want
  • Singing

• Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Politics
  • Vocation
  • Hobby

• I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work

• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  

  Franklin Pierce

• In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • City

• If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Pretty
  • Sick
  • Integrity

• For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Struggle

• Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Past
  • Like
  • Bones

• I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Father

• I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Together

• I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Question

• We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value - and affordability - of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Work
  • Long
  • Together

• You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Health care