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

• I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Done

• Toni: Well... straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!Clarice: You mean...Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Respect
  • Commitment
  • Affirmation

• It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Important
  • Party
  • Forever

• If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Black
  • Party
  • English

• Instead of reaching inside ourselves we need to remind the country we are the natural party of government.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Country
  • Party
  • Government

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

  

  John Delaney
  • Party
  • Broken
  • Tea