Mike Rowe Quotes

It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  

  Otto Schily
  • War
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Always
  • Cinema

• I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Roles
  • Been
  • Only

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Stories
  • Books

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Believe
  • You
  • Same

• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Jesus
  • Heaven
  • Teacher

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I can't tell you how lucky I feel. I've gotten to work Peter Facinelli 'American Odyssey,' and I got to do 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' - which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I've really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • People
  • Character
  • Gangster

• I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • School

• He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • School
  • Knowledge
  • Caring

• It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • School
  • Stills
  • Selling