Sean Duffy Quotes

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

Sean Duffy

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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Love
  • Evil

• Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Rose

• Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fly
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Money
  • Want
  • Well

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • City
  • Amazing

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Poetry

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Lies

• My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Me

• To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Play

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • See
  • Snake
  • Bottle

• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Aesthetic

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and terrorists are bad people. The ideals of these groups are in opposition to everything our nation stands for and everything that holds true to our founding principles. Their hatred of people dissimilar to them is un-American, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Strong
  • Value
  • Balance

• As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

  

  Sean Duffy
  • Family
  • American
  • Belts