Jim Lehrer Quotes

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Space

• I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Legacy

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Work
  • Live
  • Children

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Win
  • Gold
  • Fans

• I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

  

  David Hartman
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Important
  • Business
  • Opinion

• We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • People
  • Country
  • Movie

• I don't think there are any rules in real face-to-face relationships or interactions. I think authenticity and being yourself is always, without a doubt, the best plan of action. Things happen differently when you're actually here, so you can't put out a general guideline that's gonna show up in text and be interpreted. There are no rules. Just be yourself.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Business
  • Annoyed