Jim Clyburn Quotes

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Jim Clyburn

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Why
  • Government

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • Song
  • Little Things

• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Think
  • Problem

• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Depend

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Long
  • You
  • Education

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• Just being famous feels cheap to me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Cheap

• Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

  

  Mark McCormack
  • Quality

• You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we go, we're in this thing,' because that's where bad acting comes from.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • People
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