Eric Swalwell Quotes

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

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

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Different
  • House

• 'You’re bright,' Lupe said to her softly. 'Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose your realities. You can’t.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• Frank's chromosome was now breeding as true as ever. Blood group, creed, colour of skin - nothing was proof against it. The numbers with shared consciousness, procreating for all they were worth, trebled every generation.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • True

• We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.

  

  John Conyers
  • Fake

• A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Start
  • Building
  • Finish

• Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers...

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Control
  • Repression
  • Police Forces

• If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Business

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

  

  Eric Swalwell