Jim DeMint Quotes

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Evil

• My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Theatre
  • Grandparents
  • Uncle

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Simple
  • Yourself
  • Leader

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Cheap
  • Scorn
  • Shoddy

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Power
  • Change

• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• I'm trying to change how women think about themselves.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Women
  • Trying

• Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • World
  • Mad

• Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Trying
  • Today