John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

John Lewis

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• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Funny
  • Care
  • Watches

• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Red
  • Wine

• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • American
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Story
  • Grandmother

• It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Work
  • Play
  • Work Hard

• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Powerful

• Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Done
  • Desire
  • Accomplished

• Rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Right
  • Rule
  • Felt

• At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Believing

• We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

  

  John Lewis
  • Right
  • Health care
  • Privilege