Jerry Moran Quotes

The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'

Jerry Moran

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• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Star
  • Thought

• In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • Up
  • Know
  • Little

• I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • Man
  • Hand

• My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • May
  • Faith

• I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Hollywood

• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • War
  • Serious
  • Politics

• Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Evil
  • Prince
  • Bubbles

• Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

  

  Larry Wall

• I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Magic

• We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • People
  • Done

• The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • World
  • Risk

• You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • People

• Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • People
  • She
  • Moving

• When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

  

  Brian Williams
  • Daily

• I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

  

  Geoff Ryman
  • Work
  • Done
  • Science

• This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Art
  • Forever

• There are a few more boxes coming to you guys. Feel free to open them, and use them.

  

  Bowe Bergdahl
  • Guys
  • Boxes
  • Feel Free

• Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.

  

  Michael Carbonaro
  • Special
  • Entertainment
  • Perform

• The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'

  

  Jerry Moran