Mike Rowe Quotes

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

Mike Rowe

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• On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Perfect

• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Music
  • May
  • Kids

• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Model

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Man
  • Health

• That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Education

• I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Spend
  • Creations

• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Better

• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• We are seeing more managed money and, to an extent, institutional money entering the space. Anecdotally speaking, I know of many people who are working at hedge funds or other investment managers who are trading cryptocurrency personally, the question is, when do people start doing it with their firms and funds?

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Money
  • Question

• What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Money
  • Like

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money

• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Money
  • Team

• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Money
  • Better
  • Understand

• Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• You cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Change

• A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Long
  • Planning

• I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

  

  Jason Moran

• No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Energy
  • Prayer
  • Fire

• We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Time
  • Beginning

• We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Pay