Mike Ross Quotes

I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

Mike Ross

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Political
  • Free

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Better
  • Try
  • Motivational

• My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Learn

• We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

  

  Larry Page
  • Why
  • Know
  • Government

• Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Success
  • Strong

• The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Country
  • Remember

• I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Working

• Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Universe

• If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Universe

• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Destiny

• He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • She
  • Wonder

• Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Chain
  • Pause
  • Formation

• And everyone’s story would be different. Every triumph would have a different prize, every heart ache a different face.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Different
  • Triumph
  • Heartache

• Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

  

  Jessica Lowndes
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Inspiration

• Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Black
  • Triumph
  • Daddy

• I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

  

  Mike Ross
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Republican