Michael Dukakis Quotes

What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.

Michael Dukakis

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• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Leave
  • Lead

• I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

  

  Edmund White
  • Great
  • House
  • Flower

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Choices
  • Rights

• I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Women
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • God
  • Why
  • Faith

• People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Understand

• I'm drawn to bad romances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Bad
  • Drawn
  • Romances

• So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • American
  • Words
  • Small

• The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Past

• A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Think
  • Run

• I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Room
  • Poison
  • Sit

• We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Health

• One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Lies
  • Depends

• What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.

  

  Michael Dukakis
  • Gun
  • Room
  • Bullets