Jesse Helms Quotes

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

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• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Justice
  • Easy
  • Injustice

• I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Feeling
  • Climate
  • Conventions

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• I understand those who don't like me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Understand

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Know
  • Ignorance

• I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Results
  • Function
  • Onstage

• If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Changes

• Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Work
  • Impossible
  • Horror

• A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life
  • Opinion
  • Horse

• Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Women
  • Sex

• I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Time
  • World
  • Nice

• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Science
  • Powerful

• We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Taught
  • Schoolroom

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Music
  • Guy
  • I Love

• The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

  

  Gene Brown
  • Sleep
  • Hours
  • Setting

• It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

  

  Jesse Helms