Howard Baker Quotes

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

Howard Baker

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• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Enough
  • Books

• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Stress

• The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Perfect
  • Forever

• Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Logic

• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Community

• When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

  

  Les Baxter

• If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • People

• I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Time
  • Great

• Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • American
  • Feeling

• Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

  

  James Stephens
  • Women

• My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • School
  • Business
  • Dad

• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • God
  • Children
  • Prayer

• I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Different
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.. .Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat.. .I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

  

  Claude Monet
  • House
  • Air
  • Lies

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

  

  Howard Baker
  • Air
  • Republic
  • Decline