Paul Ryan Quotes

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

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• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Broken
  • Places

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Nobody

• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Lie

• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Play
  • Inside

• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Effort

• Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Children
  • May
  • Present

• Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great
  • Technology

• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Power
  • Perfect
  • Problem

• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Rich

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Law
  • Peace

• Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

  

  Paul Ryan
  • Growth
  • Tax
  • Raising