Max Baucus Quotes

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

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• I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good
  • Music
  • Value

• Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Help

• Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • May
  • You
  • Beat

• I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Traditionalist

• Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Faith
  • End
  • Understand

• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Pyramids

• For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

• The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Knowledge
  • Evil
  • Personality

• The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

  

  James Madison
  • Society
  • Interesting
  • Decision

• A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Girl

• Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • May
  • Giving

• I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Character

• I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Player
  • Brother

• I only really work when I want to.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Work

• The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Lord
  • Scripture
  • Temple

• The men have long been unpaid and need relief.

  

  John Hawkins
  • Men
  • Long

• Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.

  

  Adolfo Cambiaso
  • Good
  • Horse

• So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Thinking

• I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

  

  Max Baucus