John Boehner Quotes

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

John Boehner

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• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Science
  • Where

• I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Know
  • Me
  • Best

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Free
  • Political

• People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Kids
  • Thought

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religion
  • Sound
  • Say

• I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Baby
  • Busy

• The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Best
  • Confidence

• I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Time
  • London
  • Sailing

• The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Day
  • Thought

• I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Want
  • Exist
  • Entertainment

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Trying

• There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Rude

• One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Patience

• I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Growing
  • Research
  • Scientist

• Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

  

  John Boehner