J. Edward Day Quotes

To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.

J. Edward Day

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Kids
  • Identity
  • Expectations

• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Poems

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • May
  • Own
  • View

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• I've got a full life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Got
  • Full

• The Price Is Right can really get me going.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Me
  • Right
  • Price

• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Wonder
  • Revolution

• Fear is the brother of hate.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Brother

• Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Small
  • Mistake

• This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.

  

  Chuck Schumer
  • Done
  • Job
  • America

• I was a little confused as a kid because I grew up with my mom, and my mom is black. So, I was cultured in a very 'black' way. But when I go to school, I'm getting called 'white.' They would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn't understand. I just knew I saw people of all different shades, and I was light. Now, I'm in a much bigger world.

  

  Rihanna
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Relationship
  • Littles
  • Selfless

• I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Real

• To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.

  

  J. Edward Day