Jim Nussle Quotes

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

Jim Nussle

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Political
  • Better
  • Media

• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Really

• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Find
  • Hard

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dream

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Artist

• I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

  

  E. B. White
  • Cool
  • Lake

• That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

  

  Jim Nussle
  • People
  • Promise
  • Accountability