Everett Dirksen Quotes

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Everett Dirksen

Everett Dirksen

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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

Barbara Corcoran
- Up
- Time
- World
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Barbra Streisand
- Know
- First
- Boring
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

Tamra Davis
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

Pat Metheny
- People
- Life
- Time
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

Larry Wilcox
- You
- Ignorance
- Embrace
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

Mae Jemison
- Very
- Our
- Self-Awareness