John F. Lehman, Jr. Quotes

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

John F. Lehman, Jr.

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Free
  • Joy

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Shinier

• I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Fake

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Normal

• Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Decisions

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ocean

• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Holidays

• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Gloves make you so much more delicate.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • More
  • Gloves

• I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • I Can
  • Forward
  • Pen

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • People
  • Good
  • Practice

• I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Soul
  • Made
  • Declaration

• Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

  

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