Michael Hayden Quotes

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

Michael Hayden

• American
• Administration
• Theories
• Frequently
• Pragmatism
• Whatsoever
• Preposterous

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Create

• Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Middle
  • East
  • Middle East

• Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Why
  • Want
  • Ignorance

• There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Girl

• Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Distance

• If you don't know what a cat is, it's sort of like a stuffed animal... but with a working asshole. I'll admit that when I went to the pound, I was actually shopping for a never ending box of shit, um, and the cat just came with it. 20

  

  Ze Frank
  • Animal
  • Cat
  • Shopping

• Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Party

• Madness and insanity are two terms that are so vague and relative that you can’t really apportion proper values to them. The only thing I can think of that has any use it functional and dysfunctional. Are you working as well? In which case, it doesn’t matter if you are mad.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Mad
  • Insanity

• Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• New York has always embraced me.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci

• I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Interesting

• You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

  

  James St. James
  • Writing

• Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Children
  • American
  • Father

• I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it.

  

  Ami Bera
  • Believe
  • American
  • Dream

• With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • Smart

• Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Country
  • Path

• If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s the narcissist?

  

  Emily Gould
  • Woman
  • Relate
  • Writes

• For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • American
  • Administration
  • Theories