John Breaux Quotes

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I got discovered off of YouTube.

  

  Becky G
  • Got
  • YouTube
  • Off

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Funny

• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Political
  • Opinion

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Best

• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • School
  • High
  • Water

• I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Working
  • Class
  • I Can

• After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• We like lists because we don't want to die.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Die
  • Like

• I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Hope

• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

  

  Eric Shanteau
  • Pressure
  • Olympic Games

• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Light

• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Listen
  • Labor
  • Enjoyment

• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.

  

  Claire Forlani
  • House
  • Cute

• I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

  

  John Breaux