John Barrasso Quotes

When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Baby
  • Identity

• My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Daughter
  • Therapist

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

  

  Manika
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Hard

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Art

• The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

  

  Emanuel Celler

• The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

  

  David Reuben
  • Health
  • Bread
  • Frozen

• We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Distance

• I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Growing
  • Goals
  • Athlete

• When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Good
  • Country
  • Family