John Thune Quotes

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

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• Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Remember
  • Nobody
  • T-shirt

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Growth
  • Successful
  • Now

• I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Red

• I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Think
  • Curiosity

• It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Confident

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • America
  • Environment
  • iPhone

• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Find
  • Place
  • Conquer

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort

• I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Circumstances
  • Research

• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Hands

• There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Disaster
  • Climate

• I wanna be the most successful socially aware artist: Grammys, number one singles, albums, overseas and internationally-known household name, all that.

  

  Jay IDK

• Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Up

• I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Together
  • Effort

• When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

  

  John Thune
  • Control
  • Action