Nina Totenberg Quotes
I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.Nina Totenberg
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
Lady Gregory -
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope -
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
Gary Zukav -
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
Dan Maffei -
It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
Dan Coats
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush -
You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
Zac Brown Band -
I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
Mackenzie Foy -
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
Beck -
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West -
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
Patricia Hewitt
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
Otto Preminger -
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
Kate Voegele -
I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
Harrison Salisbury -
For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
Dan Harmon
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers -
Germany must have her place in the sun.
Wilhelm II -
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.
Winifred Holtby -
I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.
Chris Matthews -
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
Marianne Williamson -
I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
Nina Totenberg