Joe Conason Quotes
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
-
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
-
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
-
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
-
I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
-
I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
-
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
-
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
-
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
-
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
-
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
-
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-
Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
-
I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
-
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
-
For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
-
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
-
I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.
-
I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.
-
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
-
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
-
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
