Zechariah Chafee Quotes

We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

Zechariah Chafee

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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Death
  • Internet
  • Media

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Band
  • Stand

• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • End

• There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I'm always focused.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • Focused

• I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Money
  • Done
  • Game

• Help save the world!

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Help

• There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

  

  Matt Bomer

• On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Mother
  • Father

• Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Style

• And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Work

• Is the 'black designer' label there to warn everyone not to have the same level of expectations for me, or is it some type of prize? I just want to work in an even playing field where I can get press for my work and not just my race and my personal views on it.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Work
  • Black

• I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Picture

• The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Football
  • Red

• When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • People
  • Interested
  • Younger

• Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

  

  Zechariah Chafee