Jon Corzine Quotes
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
Quotes to Explore
-
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
-
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
-
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
-
Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
-
Life is too short to blend in.
-
In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
-
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
-
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
-
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
-
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
-
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
-
I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
-
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
-
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
-
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
-
I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
-
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
-
She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
-
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
-
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
-
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
