George Nethercutt Quotes

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

George Nethercutt

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• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
  • Figures

• I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Me
  • Gossip

• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • Best
  • Challenge

• My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Children
  • You
  • Protect

• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Good
  • Long
  • Children

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Fear
  • Determination
  • Insecurity

• I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Men

• All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Life
  • She
  • Reality

• I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.

  

  Larry Wall

• All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Science

• You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Stop

• Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Amazing

• I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

  

  George Nethercutt