Ralph Nader Quotes
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
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Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.
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I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.
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We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.
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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
