R. G. LeTourneau Quotes

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Poverty
  • Revolution
  • Mess

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Guitar

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Blame
  • Vulnerability
  • Instinctive

• Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • New
  • Generation
  • Peaceful

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• I'm a proud Welshman.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Proud

• My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

  

  Jacques Pepin

• If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.

  

  Kalup Linzy

• Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • People
  • Long

• The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • American
  • Giving
  • Control

• Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Prostitution
  • Protests
  • Social State

• The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

  

  R. G. LeTourneau
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Knowledge