Stuart Rothenberg Quotes

I think the White House is filled with confrontation, and is doing things to continue it. The White House and congressional Democrats think that they have the upper hand. They look at the surveys, they look at the polls, they think the Republicans are going to get blamed.

Stuart Rothenberg

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• My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
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• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Up
  • Play

• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Medals

• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Easy
  • Be kind

• It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Work
  • Party

• Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Boy

• He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Great
  • Gone
  • Yards

• The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Hundred
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• With an economy that is going strong and a belief that tomorrow will be better than today, it may be easier to just shrug it off if, say, an internet service you use like WhatsApp gets turned off by the government as the Communist Party's national congress approaches.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • May
  • Today
  • Strong

• Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hope

• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Gun

• I think the White House is filled with confrontation, and is doing things to continue it. The White House and congressional Democrats think that they have the upper hand. They look at the surveys, they look at the polls, they think the Republicans are going to get blamed.

  

  Stuart Rothenberg
  • House
  • Republican
  • Democrat