John T. Flynn Quotes

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

John T. Flynn

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• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• 'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Talking

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • May
  • Speak
  • Communication

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • May
  • You
  • Social

• When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Know
  • Best
  • Look

• For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Important
  • Me

• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Freedom
  • Property
  • Original

• I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Up
  • School
  • Animal

• It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.

  

  Nick Swardson
  • Pressure
  • Open
  • Challenging

• If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Canada
  • Scandinavia
  • Single-payer systems

• When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • People

• The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Attractive

• Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

  

  John T. Flynn