John C. Danforth Quotes

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

John C. Danforth

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• We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Find
  • Try
  • China

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Power
  • Way
  • Pampered

• I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Band
  • Thought

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • People
  • Different
  • Small

• I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • Deep
  • Preparation

• We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Strong

• Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Question
  • Growth

• Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. between 1830 and 1860. After Reconstruction's defeat, their urgency of tone was replaced by the softer one of reminiscence.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Style

• I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Book

• I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Fear
  • Joy

• People always grow and mature.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • People

• New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Women
  • Party
  • Ministers

• As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • World
  • Acting
  • Films

• Happy were the ages when the starry sky was the map of all possible paths, ages of such perfect social integration that no drug was required to link the hero to the whole.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Happy
  • Hero
  • Integration

• We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

  

  John C. Danforth