Olympia Snowe Quotes

Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.

Olympia Snowe

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• If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Try
  • Create

• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Man

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Story

• The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Romantic
  • Comedies
  • Basically

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Up
  • College
  • Journey

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Future
  • Effort

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Science

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Way
  • Ordinary

• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Reflection

• Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Law
  • Actions
  • Products