John Breaux Quotes

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

John Breaux

• People
• Good
• American
• Victory
• Priority

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Shoes

• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Happy
  • Positive

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Creative

• If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • Think
  • You

• It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • People
  • Believe

• I'm tired of people taking off their clothes.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • People
  • Tired
  • Clothes

• Artur Schnabel, one of the towering pianists of the twentieth century. Modified in tone but not spirit from Schnabel’s interview remarks in Chicago the same year Germany surrendered to the Allies. She also knew this was about as high a compliment as Paul Mandelbaum was capable of making. Schnabel’s performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas were possibly the only thing her mentor was capable of carrying on about ad nauseam. You were never going to enter his pantheon of star pupils unless you gave yourself over, heart and soul, to Schnabel’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Klaviersonaten and the virtuoso’s idea that the greatest music was that which is “better than it can be performed.

  

  Bradford Morrow
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Idea

• Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Up
  • Able
  • Growing Up

• There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

  

  John Breaux
  • People
  • Good
  • American