John Hewson Quotes

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

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• My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Values

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Thought
  • Golf

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Saying

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Design
  • Wise

• I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Doubt
  • Working
  • Greatness

• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Silly
  • Most
  • Absurd

• Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Doctor

• Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Joy
  • Band
  • Genius

• Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Career

• You must be wise, but not too wise.

  

  Alexander Turney Stewart
  • Wise

• I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

  

  Angela Bettis
  • Good
  • Work

• I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Live
  • Night
  • Saturday

• We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Women
  • Why
  • Giving

• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Writing
  • Singing

• The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Boy

• Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Plans

• The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Men
  • Truth
  • War

• Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Leaving

• To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

  

  John Hewson
  • War
  • Ridiculous
  • Troops