Joe Lhota Quotes

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Cancer
  • Will
  • Smoking

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • History
  • Romantic

• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Dance

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Work
  • Help
  • Tired

• We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Government
  • Conflict

• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • System
  • Lifestyle

• We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Long
  • Decision

• What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Ambition
  • Egg

• It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Lost
  • Confidence
  • Bible

• 'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in a working-class, white-guy neighborhood.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Motorcycle

• When politics is interesting, people go vote.

  

  Jacques Parizeau
  • People
  • Interesting

• I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Past

• To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

  

  John Updike
  • World
  • War
  • True

• Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes and ideas. God - He is the Ultimate artist. And what I see around me - flowers, leaves, trees, birds, fruit, vegetables.

  

  Mary Engelbreit
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

  

  Leila Josefowicz
  • Music
  • Age
  • Wish

• To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

  

  John Sebastian
  • Real

• I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

  

  Joe Lhota