John Delaney Quotes

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

John Delaney

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• The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • People
  • Religion
  • Afraid

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Clothes
  • Closet
  • Velvet

• I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Knowing

• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
  • Happy
  • Man

• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Government
  • Progress

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Heart
  • Pressure
  • Argument

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Nervous
  • Go
  • Beyond

• I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Pretty
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Old
  • Sail

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Life Is Too Short

• The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Effective

• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • American
  • Best

• Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Time

• With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

  

  Mary Bono
  • Energy

• I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Done

• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Happy
  • Thanks
  • Japanese

• I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.

  

  Albert Speer
  • Party
  • Jews
  • Evacuated

• With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

  

  John Delaney
  • Party
  • Broken
  • Tea