Jonathan Turley Quotes

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.

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• Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Looking

• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Close
  • Thick
  • Suitcase

• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Today
  • Lawyers

• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Things
  • Daring

• I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Injustice
  • Homosexuality

• The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Better
  • Name
  • Dignity

• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Exactly

• I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Remember
  • Values
  • Table

• Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Me
  • Memories

• I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • First
  • Wine
  • Entrepreneur

• I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Best

• The more careless, the more modish.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Careless
  • Modish

• There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Things
  • Wanting
  • Ecstasy

• Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Work
  • Friends

• In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Father

• I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.

  

  Jonathan Turley