Jim McDermott Quotes

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Jim McDermott

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Remember
  • I Can

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Home
  • Path
  • Hiking

• We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Great
  • Children
  • Beauty

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Bible

• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Quality
  • Human
  • Creativity

• What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Feel

• After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Media

• Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Happy
  • Win
  • saw

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Single

• On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Past
  • Walking

• I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Important

• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

  

  Jim McDermott
  • Free
  • Compassion