Eric Swalwell Quotes

My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.

Eric Swalwell

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• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Ideas

• In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Want
  • Opinion

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • People
  • Love
  • New

• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Great
  • Cancer

• The good thing is that I'm always honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Always
  • Honest

• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Politics

• My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Advice
  • Songs
  • Girls

• I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Like

• I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Live
  • Movies
  • New York

• I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Walk

• Basketball is basketball.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Basketball

• I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Work
  • Used

• Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Never
  • Worth

• Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Waiting
  • Boy
  • Rain

• 'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best—' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Stop

• In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Effort

• I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

  

  John Battelle
  • School
  • Career
  • Passion

• Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Future
  • Past
  • Purpose

• Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sides

• If you wish to make a figure in marble, first make one of clay, and when you have finished it, let it dry and place it in a case which should be large enough, after the figure is taken out of it, to receive also the marble, from which you intend to reveal the figure in imitation of the one in clay.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Wish
  • Taken

• If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.

  

  Eric Swalwell