Jeannette Rankin Quotes

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Hair

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Think
  • Race

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Give

• There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sacrifice

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Jeans

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Perfect
  • Passion

• Alienation is the most common state of the knowledgeable movie audience, and though it has the peculiar rewards of low connoisseurship, a miser’s delight in small favors, we long to be surprised out of it - not to suspension of disbelief nor to a Brechtian kind of alienation, but to pleasure, something a man can call good without self-disgust.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Good
  • Long
  • Movie

• Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

  

  David Bonderman
  • Money
  • Home

• I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Dark
  • Wall
  • Fly

• In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Age
  • Ugly

• War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • War