Jim Webb Quotes

I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

Jim Webb

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• I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Information
  • Given

• In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Find
  • Journalism
  • Sweat

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Age
  • Lies

• I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Justice

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Why
  • Black

• I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Want
  • Doing

• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Path

• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Habit
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Universe
  • Advertising

• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Know
  • Annoyed
  • Honey

• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Change
  • Revolution
  • Determination

• The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Beginning

• We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Different

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Funny
  • English
  • Language

• I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Focus

• I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

  

  Jim Webb