Eric Swalwell Quotes

If you say you're going to do something, you better damn well do it.

Eric Swalwell

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• Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Always
  • Find
  • Complicated

• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Work
  • Travel
  • France

• I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Lucky

• To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Thanks
  • Solitude

• For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictatorsall, and I recommend to you this moral:In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Time

• We have, as a result of two thousand years of Christianity, sex on the brain. Which isn't always the best place for it.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Brain
  • Sex

• cite

  

  Alex Rodriguez

• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Perfect

• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.

  

  James Madison
  • Men
  • Diversity

• It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

  

  Alan Ball
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Organization

• It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Interesting
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

  

  Clare Balding
  • World
  • Women

• The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Wisdom
  • Occasions
  • Sciences

• There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

  

  David Chase

• I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, 'Are you signed to anybody?' So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• If you say you're going to do something, you better damn well do it.

  

  Eric Swalwell