George P. Shultz Quotes

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

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• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Countries
  • Pure
  • Altruism

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

  

  Becky G
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Makeup

• In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Real
  • Service
  • Competition

• Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Music
  • Want

• Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Together
  • Small
  • Flower

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Coaching

• With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Audience
  • Connection

• There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Work
  • Why
  • Fun

• The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Reality

• For me, the massiveness of what I don’t know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • God
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Real
  • Philosophy
  • Ignorance

• If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • World
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Character
  • Food
  • Variety

• The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

  

  George P. Shultz