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

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• 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

• 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

• One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.

  

  Elle Varner

• In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Like many women, I spend much of my working day wearing a variety of cosmetic and personal care products on my skin and hair.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Women
  • Hair

• I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

  

  James D'arcy
  • People
  • Believe
  • Die

• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

  

  George MacDonald
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Die

• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mean

• Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• 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