Joe Biden Quotes

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

Joe Biden

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Game
  • Effort

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Rich
  • Meaning

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Taken
  • Animal

• 'This is my story, this is my song If you feel it, muthafucka, you can't go wrong to the screw-face niggaz, whatch you on? Get off that, get a goal and focus dawg'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Song
  • Focus

• I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Family

• We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.

  

  Brit Hume
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

  

  Maximilian Schell

• My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

  

  Joe Biden
  • Job
  • Father
  • Community