Everett Dirksen Quotes

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Everett Dirksen

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• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Good
  • Question
  • Heaven

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Genuine

• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Peace
  • Government

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Challenges

• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Up
  • Night
  • Myself

• I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Family
  • Attention

• Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Special

• I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Song
  • Change
  • Focus

• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • God
  • Product
  • Thank God

• Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • Family
  • Week

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Real
  • Question
  • Story

• All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Real
  • May

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

  

  Everett Dirksen
  • Money