Norm Coleman Quotes

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

Norm Coleman

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• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Creativity

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Quality
  • Better

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Doing
  • Speed
  • Buying

• I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Director

• No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Work
  • Why
  • Worry

• I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Maybe
  • Doctorate

• If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Children
  • Done
  • Death

• A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • She
  • Christian
  • Serious

• I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Writing

• I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Book
  • Perfect

• For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

  

  Brian Acton
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Home
  • Baseball
  • Tree

• The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Purpose
  • Natural
  • Corporations

• Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Different
  • Children

• For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

  

  Mark Foley
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

  

  Norm Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Political