John B. Larson Quotes

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

John B. Larson

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• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Vote
  • Hearts

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Star

• Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • End
  • Look
  • Season

• Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Happy

• With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Evil

• When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my face is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from others.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Nature

• Tous nous serions transformés si nous avions le courage d'être ce que nous sommes.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Courage

• I love Tinashe.

  

  Charli XCX

• Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Help

• Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Time

• Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Athlete

• Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

  

  Bernice King
  • Important

• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Book
  • Language
  • Literature

• You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Better
  • Magic

• The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Success
  • Failure

• In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Economy
  • Questions
  • Opportunities

• I'm not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Why

• Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

  

  John B. Larson