Howard Baker Quotes

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Howard Baker

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• Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Men
  • Character

• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Family
  • Money
  • Bad

• I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Year
  • Canada
  • Lived

• I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

  

  LaToya London
  • She
  • Style
  • Same

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • College
  • Going

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Taken

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stars
  • Become
  • Australia

• Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Done

• We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Work
  • Society
  • Best

• That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

  

  Ian Watson
  • You
  • Care
  • Cost

• I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Fan
  • Rock N Roll

• Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Respect
  • Fiction

• The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Education
  • Violence
  • Danger

• Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Choices
  • Meaningless
  • Engaged

• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Music
  • Balance
  • Wind

• Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

  

  Howard Baker
  • Care
  • Balance
  • Generations