John Dingell Quotes

I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

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• While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • People
  • China
  • Agriculture

• I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Best
  • Struggle

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Child
  • Slavery

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Past
  • Like
  • Bones

• We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Man
  • New

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Embarrassed

• I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Future

• The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why? If an object placed in front of a single light is very close to it you will see that it casts a very large shadow on the opposite wall, and the farther you remove the object from the light the smaller will the image of the shadow become.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Why
  • Light
  • Single

• Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Writing

• I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Stop

• I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

  

  John Dingell
  • Job
  • Party