Everett Dirksen Quotes

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

Everett Dirksen

• Color
• Mankind
• Equal
• Skins
• Denial
• Diminish

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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Attention
  • Pay Attention

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Boy

• Globalization is a fact of economic life.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Life
  • Fact
  • Globalization

• 'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
  • Today
  • Rest

• If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • True
  • Universe
  • Acceptance

• Can’t keep hanging onTo all that’s dead and goneIf you built yourself a mythYou'd know just what to giveMaterializeOr let the ashes fly

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Fly

• Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Falling In Love

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Power
  • Red
  • Shoes

• I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Lost
  • Mad

• Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Fire
  • Phoenix

• One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Positive

• Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

  

  Edward Grey
  • Men
  • Power
  • War

• Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.

  

  Christine and the Queens
  • Way
  • Language
  • Dancing

• The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • Color
  • Moon
  • Beach

• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Color
  • Humble
  • Make

• I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Make

• There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Girl
  • Suffering
  • Photograph

• Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

  

  Everett Dirksen
  • Color
  • Mankind
  • Equal