Jeff Merkley Quotes

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

Jeff Merkley

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• Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Clothes
  • Someone
  • Mask

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Lyrics
  • Fan
  • Pink Floyd

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Poor
  • Because
  • Resources

• Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Lived
  • Decade
  • Shed

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Limits

• Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

  

  Najib Razak
  • New
  • Tax
  • Australia

• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Story
  • Memory

• To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Tangled

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I'd seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Get
  • Many
  • Too

• Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Fun
  • Responsibility
  • Boy

• As long as you win Monaco, that's the one. In my ten years of Formula One, I've only won here once. This is my second time.Every year, it feels like this is your Achilles heel. You almost have it and then you don't. It's such a hard race to win.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Win

• Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Evolution
  • Birth
  • Discover

• It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Needs

• I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Up
  • Work
  • Movie

• There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

  

  Jeff Merkley