John Thune Quotes

I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.

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• You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Yourself

• Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Italian

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Love
  • Question

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Model

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Air
  • Boy

• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Night
  • Cool

• I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Care
  • First
  • Debate

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can plant a seed for liberation in the individual. That class of objects is called "liberation through seeing." Certain Buddha images are like that, but if it were possible, I would like to find contemporary non-traditional sacred images. Maybe it sounds pretentious, but most spiritual paths point to the possibility that we all can access the deep, absolute dimensions of reality.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Spiritual

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• The real underlying value comes if you can put a company back into a running state and it becomes a successful viable entity if it continues to repay loans.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Real
  • Running
  • Value

• I love the Avengers movies and Iron Man and Captain America.

  

  Elden Henson
  • America

• I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.

  

  John Thune
  • Pretty
  • Running