Gaylord Nelson Quotes
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
-
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
-
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
-
I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
-
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
-
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
-
I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
-
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
-
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
-
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
-
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
-
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
-
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
-
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
-
My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
-
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
-
I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
-
I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
-
I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
-
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.
-
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
-
'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
-
I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.
-
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
